Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ
transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly
neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena
such as the denomination of human body parts as "raw materials" and
"commodities," or the arguments used by the proponents for a free
market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still
linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts
is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end
of a historical process as the notion of "fetishism" links the
market with the body. Marx's concept of commodity fetishism and
Sigmund Freud's theory of the perverted use of objects are modified
and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market
and medicine.
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