1st Edition
Commodified Bodies Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade
By Oliver Decker
Copyright 2014
226 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
226 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
"a pleasure to read" – Detlev Claussen
"ingenious analysis" – Lars Quadfasel
"Oliver Decker is an intimate expert of the psychosocial of transplantation medicine." – Christoph Türcke
