Economies of Bodily Commodification

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 213-225

  Parry, Bronwyn ^a  

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Author keywords

Dignitarian arguments about sanctity of human body; Economies of bodily commodification; Genealogies of bodily commodification; Hypermobile proxies and highly technologized artifacts; Neoliberalism and alienability; Public concern, nature of bodily commodification; Spatialities of emergent tissue economies; The HeLa stem cell line

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886824971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118384497.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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