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Edition: 1
Release: 1999-10
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0813526450
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Recovering the Nation's Body pdf
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"In this provocative ethnography, Hogle reveals how the uses of human tissue and organs as therapeutic agents are intimately related not only to expanding arenas of commodification, but also to the politics of nationalism. A challenge to received wisdom about bodies and persons."-Margaret Lock, author of Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America "This astonishing portrait of changing understandings of life and death is both profound and revolutionary. While extending classical debates about body parts as gifts and as commodities, it brilliantly transfigures them. Unparalleled in its field, this powerful book redefines the future of medical anthropology."-Sarah Franklin, Reader in Cultural Anthropology, Lancaster University (England) The body is both a site for medical practice and a source of tools for therapeutic and scientific uses. There are many meanings ascribed to the body that both affect and are affected by numerous cultural, economic, political Download Recovering the Nation's Body for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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