Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Subtitle: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer (University Seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 129
ISBN-13: 9780231510981
Subjects: Popular Culture - General; Pop Arts / Pop Culture
Description: "In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley 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. Sharp also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy."--BOOK JACKET.