Linda F Hogle

Recovering the Nation's Body

Cultural Memory, Medicine, and the Politics of Redemption

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This text analyzes the practices involved in procuring human tissue, and examines how the German past and present-day situation within the European Union are key in understanding the form that medical practices take within various contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780813526454
• ISBN-10: 0813526450
• Artikelnr.: 22417588

Autorenporträt

Linda F. Hogle is a fellow at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics. She has written widely on the anthropology of science and on bioethics and cultural diversity. 

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : situating medical practices
Animation and regeneration : the meaning of death and the use of body
materials in history
Embodying national identity : national socialism and the body
Culture, technology, and the law define the body
Bodies, sciences, and the state in the new Germany
Organizing the procurement and use of human materials
Local practice : coordinators and surgeons
Converting human materials into therapeutic tools
The right therapeutic tools
Conclusions : medicine and the politics of redemption