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Commodified Bodies

By Oliver Decker

Commodified Bodies

By Oliver Decker

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Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and "commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx's concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud's theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
226
Release Date:
2014-05-23
Publication Date:
2014-04-09
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415854830
ISBN13:
9780415854832
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
485 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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