Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences

Contributor(s): Franklin, Sarah (Editor), Lock, Margaret (Editor)

ISBN: 9781930618190

Publisher: Sar Press

Hardcover

$34.95

Pub Date: April 15, 2003

Dewey: 570

LCCN: 2003002084

Lexile Code: 0000

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.00" H x 9.00" L x 6.80" W ( 1.40 lbs) 392 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar

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Description: The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge.

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