Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade

ISBN-13: 9780415854832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 226 str.

Oliver Decker

Opis

This title 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

Spis treści

1. On the Social Psychology of Medicine  2. The Miraculous Leg Transplantation and the Veneration of Relics  3. Fetishism: Salvific Good, Commodity, Body  4. The Commodified Body

O autorze

Oliver Decker is a Member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leipzig and Visiting Professor for Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Siegen.