Commodifying Bodies

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant
SAGE, 18.10.2002 - 199 Seiten
Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new 'ethic of parts' for which the divisible body is severed from the self, torn from the social fabric, and thrust into commercial transactions -- as organs, secretions, reproductive capacities, and tissues -- responding to the dictates of an incipiently global marketplace.

Breaking with established approaches which prioritize the body as 'text', the chapters in this book examine not only images of the body-turned-merchandise but actually existing organisms considered at once as material entities, semi-magical tokens, symbolic vectors and founts of lived experience. The topics covered range from the cultural disposal and media treatment of corpses, the biopolitics of cells, sperm banks and eugenics, to the international trafficking of kidneys, the development of 'transplant tourism', to the idioms of corporeal exploitation among prizefighters as a limiting case of fleshly commodity.

This insightful and arresting volume combines perspectives from anthropology, law, medicine, and sociology to offer compelling analyses of the concrete ways in which the body is made into a commodity and how its marketization in turn remakes social relations and cultural meanings.

 

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Inhalt

Nancy ScheperHughes Bodies for Sale Whole or in Parts
1
Biopolitics beyond
9
Nancy ScheperHughes Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking
31
Margaret Lock The Alienation of Body Tissue and
63
The Ends of
111
Death
121
María E Epele Excess Scarcity and Desire among
161
Languages
181
Index
195
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Autoren-Profil (2002)

Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris. He is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow and recipient of the 2008 Lewis Coser Award of the American Sociological Association. His work spans urban inequality, ethnoracial domination, the penal state, embodiment, and social theory and the politics of reason. He is a founder and past editor of the interdisciplinary journal Ethnography and was a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique for a decade. Wacquant′s books have been translated in some dozen languages and include Body and Soul: Ethnographic Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer (2004), Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality (2008), Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (2009), Prisons of Poverty (2009), and Deadly Symbiosis: Race and the Rise of the Penal State (forthcoming).

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelCommodifying Bodies
Band 7,Ausgaben 2-3 von Body and society
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Theory, culture and society
HerausgeberNancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant
Ausgabeillustriert, Neuauflage
VerlagSAGE, 2002
ISBN0761940340, 9780761940340
Länge199 Seiten
  
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