{"product_id":"biotechnology-and-culture-bodies-anxieties-ethics-paperback","title":"Biotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul E. Brodwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiotechnology and Culture\u003cbr\u003eBodies, Anxieties, Ethics\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Paul Brodwin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"A timely and perceptive look from many acute angles, at some of the most anxiety producing issues of the day.\" --Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This impressive collection offers a number of rich examples of why the development of anthropological studies of science, technology, and their disruptive social effects is a leading edge of critical enquiry.\" --Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs birth, illness, and death increasingly come under technological control, struggles arise over who should control the body and define its limits and capacities. Biotechnologies turn the traditional \"facts of life\" into matters of expert judgment and partisan debate. They blur the boundary separating people from machines, male from female, and nature from culture. In these diverse ways, they destroy the \"gold standard\" of the body, formerly taken for granted. Biotechnologies become a convenient, tangible focus for political contests over the nuclear family, legal and professional authority, and relations between the sexes. Medical interventions also transform intimate personal experience: giving birth, building new families, and surviving serious illness now immerse us in a web of machines, expert authority, and electronic images. We use and imagine the body in radically different ways, and from these emerge new collective discourses of morality and personal identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBiotechnology and Culture: Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics brings together historians, anthropologists, cultural critics, and feminists to examine the broad cultural effects of technologies such as surrogacy, tissue-culture research, and medical imaging. The moral anxieties raised by biotechnologies and their circulation across class and national boundaries provide other interdisciplinary themes for discourse in these essays. The authors favor complex social dramas of the refusal, celebration, or ambivalent acceptance of new medical procedures. Eschewing polemics or pure theory, contributors show how biotechnology collides with everyday life and reshapes the political and personal meanings of the body.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors include Paul Brodwin, Lisa Cartwright, Thomas Csordas, Gillian Goslinga-Roy, Deborah Grayson, Donald Joralemon, Hannah Landecker, Thomas Laqueur, Robert Nelson, Susan Squier, Janelle Taylor, and Alice Wexler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Brodwin, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin, is the author of Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power and a coeditor of Pain as Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheories of Contemporary Culture--Kathleen Woodward, general editor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Brodwin is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He is the author of Medicine and Morality in Haiti: The Contest for Healing Power and a co-editor of Pain as Human Experience: Anthropological Perspectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.65 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42105195855952,"sku":"9780253214287","price":42.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/Q3VIb3RzZDRTa2dSV3dxcUZEZWpmZz09.webp?v=1772240421","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/biotechnology-and-culture-bodies-anxieties-ethics-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}