Details
Title
An anthropology of biomedicine
Edition Statement
2nd ed.
Publisher
Hoboken, New Jersey, Wiley-Blackwell
Date
2018
Pagination
xiii, 545 p.
Call Number
614 HEIA 121726
Content Type
Books
Record Created
2018-06-04
Record ID
296062
Formatted Contents Note
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
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