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Biomedicine, tissue transfer and intercorporeality
2002-12-01
Abstract excerpt
More and more areas of medicine involve subjects donating tissues to another — blood, organs, bone marrow, sperm, ova and embryos can all be transferred from one person to another. Within the technical frameworks of biomedicine, such fragments are generally treated as detachable things, severed from social identity once they are removed from a particular body. However an abundant anthropological and sociological l...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 589e776a-17d4-51c7-ae9d-877b149c81e5
- DOI
- 10.1177/146470002762491980