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Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer - Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures Lesley A. Sharp
Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer - Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
Lesley A. Sharp
Probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. This book considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy.
144 pages, 12 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 10, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231138383 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 144 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 210 × 17 mm · 322 g |
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