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Klaus Hoeyer - Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets - 9789401785105 - V9789401785105
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Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets

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Description for Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets Paperback. This book introduces both pro-and anti-market positions in the debate about exchange of human body parts. It concludes that a different analytical approach is needed to better understand the mechanisms when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; KCQ; PSAD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 320.
This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material – but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
Number of Pages
191
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401785105
SKU
V9789401785105
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Reviews for Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets
“A central aim of the book is to inspect the categories deployed in polarized debates about ‘markets in body parts’. … Although Hoeyer’s work is perhaps most likely to be referenced in fields such as medical anthropology or bioethics, his study presents fresh analytic approaches backed by empirical detail that may be of interest to those working across the various ... Read more

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