Commodified Bodies

Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade

Oliver Decker (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-85483-2 (ISBN)

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Commodified Bodies 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. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the market with the body. Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freud’s theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.

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.

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

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
Zusatzinfo	5 Halftones, black and white; 5 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	448 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-85483-0 / 0415854830
ISBN-13	978-0-415-85483-2 / 9780415854832
Zustand	Neuware