Commodifying Bodies

Anthropologists and other social scientists survey a number of practices around the world that involve the transfer or use of bodies or body parts for some kind of compensation. Their topics include the other kidney: biopolitics beyond recognition; the alienation of body tissues and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines; the Yemenite children affair and body commodification in Israel, the cremated Catholic: the ends of a deceased Guatemalan; excess, scarcity, and desire among drug-using sex workers; and languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR