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Recovering the Nation's Body - Cultural Memory, Medicine and the Politics of Redemption (Paperback)
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Recovering the Nation's Body - Cultural Memory, Medicine and the Politics of Redemption (Paperback)
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"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. 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 University
(England) The body is both a site for medical practice and a source
of tools for therapeutic and scientific uses. There are many
meanings ascribed to the body that both affect and are affected by
numerous cultural, economic, political and legal issues. In order
to procure and use body organs and tissues, Linda F. Hogle states,
scientists enlist a wide array of cultural assumptions. Nowhere is
this more evident than in present-day Germany, where the specter of
Nazi medical experimentation still plays a large role in national
policies governing treatment of both living and dead bodies and the
way these policies are put into practice. In their efforts to
distance themselves from the atrocities of the past, German medical
practitioners and policy-makers have reformulated ideas of bodily
violation. Furthermore, the reunification of East and West Germany
has engendered new questions about the relationship between
individuals' bodies, science, and the state. Recovering the
Nation's Body is the first book to analyze the actual practices
involved in procuring human body parts, and the first to examine
how the German past and the unique present-day situation within the
European Union are keys to understanding the forms that medical
practice takes within various cultural contexts. Linda F. Hogle is
a fellow at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
She has written widely on the anthropology of science and on
bioethics and cultural diversity.
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