"Published in association with theory, Culture & Society, Nottingham Trent University"--T.p.verso. "Originally published as Volume 7, Numbers 2-3 of Body & Society 2001"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Bodies for sale - whole or in parts / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The other kidney : biopolitics beyond recognition / Lawrence Cohen -- Commodity fetishism in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The alienation of body tissue and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / Margaret Lock -- The immigrating body and the body politic : the yemenite children affair and body commodification in Israel / Meira Weiss -- The cremated catholic : the ends of a deceased Guatemalan / Stanley Brandes -- Bodies that don't matter : death and dereliction in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg -- Semen as gift, semen as goods : reproductive workers and the market in altruism / Diane M. Tober -- Excess, scarcity and desire among drug-using sex workers / Maria E. Epele -- Whores, slaves and stallions languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers / Loic Wacquant.
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