Social bodies / edited by Helen Lambert and Maryon McDonald.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lambert, Helen, 1960-

McDonald, Maryon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Social aspects--Case studies.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 it have changed. This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies - that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on comparative insights into

Contents:

Aged bodies and kinship matters: the ethical field of kidney transplant / Sharon R. Kaufman, Ann J. Russ and Janet K. Shim

Anatomizing conflict: accommodating human remains / Maja Petrovic-Steger

On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early twentieth-first century / Laura Peers

Towards a critical Otziography: inventing prehistoric bodies / John Robb

Bodies in perspective: a critique of the embodiment paradigm from the point of view of Amazonian ethnography / Aparecida Vilaca

Using bodies to communicate / Marilyn Strathern.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-361-9

0-85745-447-1

1-282-62754-6

9786612627545

1-84545-897-4

OCLC:

645100694