Author:
Lock, Margaret M.
Imprint:Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Descriptionxi, 506 p. ; 26 cm.
Note:PART I. TECHNOLOGIES AND BODIES IN CONTEXT: Biomedical technologies in practice -- The normal body -- Anthropologies of medicine -- Local biologies and human difference -- PART II. THE BIOLOGICAL STANDARD: The right population -- Colonial disease and biological commensurability -- Grounds for comparisons: biology and human experiments -- PART III. MORAL BOUNDARIES AND HUMAN TRANSFORMATIONS: Who owns the body? -- The social life of organs -- Kinship, infertility, and assisted reproduction -- PART IV. ELUSIVE AGENTS AND MORAL DISRUPTIONS: The matter of the self -- Genes as embodies risk -- Genomics, epigenomics, and uncertain futures -- Human difference revisited.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
