Biotechnology and Culture
Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics
As birth, illness, and death increasingly come under technological control, struggles arise over who should control the body and define its limits and capacities. Biotechnologies turn the traditional facts of life into matters of expert judgment and partisan debate. They blur the boundary, separating people from machines, male from female, and nature from culture. In these diverse ways, they destroy the gold standard of the body, formerly taken for granted. Biotechnologies become a convenient, tangible focus for political contests over the nuclear family, legal and professional authority, and relations between the sexes. Medical interventions…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21428-7
- EAN: 9780253214287
- Produktnummer: 9052144
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D0.0 cm 503 g
- Abbildungen: 2 b&w photos, 1 index
- Gewicht: 503
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Paul Brodwin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the author of Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power and a co-editor of Pain as Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives.
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