Remaking Life & Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930618204 ISBN 13: 9781930618206

Publisher: SAR Press, 2003

Synopsis

The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, "life" and "death" may be redefined as partial or contingent ("brain death"), or reconstituted altogether ("virtual" or "artificial life"). On the other hand, the finality and "reality" of death resists such classifications. This volume reflects a growing international concern about issues such as organ transplantation, new reproductive and genetic technologies and embryo research, and the necessity of cross-cultural comparison. The political economy of body parts, organ and tissue "harvesting," bio-prospecting, and the patenting of life-forms are explored herein, as well as governance and regulation in cloning, organ transplantation, tissue engineering, and artificial life systems procedures.

About this title

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About the Author

Sarah Franklin is Director of the Reproductive Sociology Research Group, a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator, and University Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of many books, including Embodied Progress, Dolly Mixtures, and Biological Relatives.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAR Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930618204
• ISBN 13: 9781930618206
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Franklin Sarah