Part I: Technologies and Bodies in Context. 1: Biomedical Technologies in Practice. 2: The Normal Body. 3: Anthropologies of Medicine. 4: Local Biologies and Human Difference. Part II: The Biological Standard. 5: The Right Population. 6: Colonial Disease and Biological Commensurability. 7: Grounds for Comparison: Biology and Human Experiments. Part III: Moral Boundaries and Human Transformations. 8: Who owns the body ? 9: The Social Life of Organs. 10: Kinship, Infertility, and Assisted Reproduction. 11: The Matter of the Self. Part IV: Elusive Agents and Moral Disruptions. 12: Genes as embodied risk. 13: Genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures. 14: Human Difference Revisited