▪ Abstract The human body—and its parts—has long been a target for commodification
within myriad cultural settings. A discussion of commodification requires that one consider …

This essay reviews recent anthropological attention to the “beginnings” and “endings” of life.
A large literature since the 1990s highlights the analytic trends and innovations that …

A Feminisme posthumà Rosi Braidotti entrellaça el pensament posthumà i la teoria feminista
per mostrar tant les aportacions feministes al posthumanisme com les possibilitats que …

This text brings together sociological, anthropological and social policy perspectives on the
life course with a view to developing the conceptual rigour of the term as well as to exploring …

Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human
reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a …

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Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to
biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and …

In this fully revised and updated second edition of An Anthropology of Biomedicine, authors
Lock and Nguyen introduce biomedicine from an anthropological perspective, exploring the …

This article explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted
suggestion that contemporary politics callslife itself'into question. It suggests that recent …

In this completely revised and updated edition, Deconstructing Developmental Psychology
interrogates the assumptions and practices surrounding the psychology of child …