Recovering the Nation's Body Download

Author: Linda F. Hogle
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0813526450
Category: Medical

Recovering the Nation's Body: Cultural Memory, Medicine, and the Politics of Redemption

"In this provocative ethnography, Hogle reveals how the uses of human tissue and organs as therapeutic agents are intimately related not only to expanding arenas of commodification, but also to the politics of nationalism. Download Recovering the Nation's Body medical books for free.
A challenge to received wisdom about bodies and persons."-Margaret Lock, author of Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America "This astonishing portrait of changing understandings of life and death is both profound and revolutionary. While extending classical debates about body parts as gifts and as commodities, it brilliantly transfigures them. Unparalleled in its field, this powerful book redefines the future of medical anthropology."-Sarah Franklin, Reader in Cultural Anthropology, Lancaster Get Recovering the Nation's Body our bestseller medical books.

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A challenge to received wisdom about bodies and persons."-Margaret Lock, author of Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America "This astonishing portrait of changing understandings of life and death is both profound and revolutionary. While extending classical debates about body parts as gifts and as commodities, it brilliantly transfigures them. Unparalleled in its field, this powerful book redefines the future of medical anthropology challenge to received wisdom about bodies and persons."-Margaret Lock, author of Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America "This astonishing portrait of changing understandings of life and death is both profound and revolutionary. While extending classical debates about body parts as gifts and as commodities, it brilliantly transfigures them. Unparalleled in its field, this powerful book redefines the future of medical anthropology."-Sarah Franklin, Reader in Cultural Anthropology, Lancaster

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