Social Bodies / / ed. by Helen Lambert, Maryon McDonald.
A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009] ©2009 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Aged Bodies and Kinship Matters: The Ethical Field of Kidney Transplant
- 2 Anatomizing Conflict – Accommodating Human Remains
- 3 On the Treatment of Dead Enemies: Indigenous Human Remains in Britain in the Early Twenty-first Century
- 4 Towards a Critical Ötziography: Inventing Prehistoric Bodies
- 5 Bodies in Perspective: A Critique of the Embodiment Paradigm from the Point of View of Amazonian Ethnography
- 6 Using Bodies to Communicate
- Notes on Contributors
- Index