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Social Bodies (Paperback)
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A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and
"ethical" concerns about the social implications of recent
developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense
that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we
treat the human body and our attitudes towards it have changed.
This volume asks what really happens to social relations in the
face of new types of transaction - such as organ donation, forensic
identification and other new medical and reproductive technologies
- that involve the use of corporeal material. Drawing on
comparative insights into how human biological material is treated,
it aims to consider how far human bodies and their components are
themselves inherently "social." The case studies - ranging from
animal-human transformations in Amazonia to forensic reconstruction
in post-conflict Serbia and the treatment of Native American
specimens in English museums - all underline that, without social
relations, there are no bodies but only "human remains." The volume
gives us new and striking ethnographic insights into bodies as
sociality, as well as a potentially powerful analytical
reconsideration of notions of embodiment. It makes a novel
contribution, too, to "science and society" debates.
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