{"product_id":"commodified-bodies-oliver-decker-9781138284838","title":"Commodified Bodies: Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommodified Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Oliver Decker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138284831\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138284838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.20h x 7.10w x 1.00d","brand":"Oliver Decker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48087717675263,"sku":"9781138284838","price":72.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ba0fad3-b0b1-4b42-9f28-85b4007231a4.jpg?v=1769101008","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/commodified-bodies-oliver-decker-9781138284838","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}