Biotechnologies of Care

Park, Juliet; Fitzgerald, RP

dc.contributor.author	Park, Juliet	en
dc.contributor.author	Fitzgerald, RP	en
dc.contributor.editor	Singer, Merrill	en
dc.contributor.editor	Erickson, Pamela	en
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-06T22:42:41Z	en
dc.date.issued	2011	en
dc.identifier.citation	In A Companion to Medical Anthropology. Editors: Singer M, Erickson P. 425-441. Wiley-Blackwell, Maldon, MA, Oxford 2011	en
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-4051-9002-2	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2292/13153	en
dc.description.abstract	Recent anthropological work on biomedical technologies, deals with personhood (Squier 2004), processes of identity formation (Martin 2007), the varied forms of human and non-human connectedness (Rock and Babinec 2008), the impacts of political economies on health technologies and healing performances (Delvecchio Good 2001), economic exchanges based on human tissue trading (Waldby and Mitchell 2006; Thacker 2005) and the context-specific elaboration of moral worlds of treatment (Battles and Manderson 2008). Our focus for this chapter is instead to explore biotechnology and care because much of the recent work attends to the “high tech/low touch” end of the biotechnology spectrum. ...	en
dc.publisher	Wiley-Blackwell	en
dc.relation.ispartof	A Companion to Medical Anthropology	en
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dc.title	Biotechnologies of Care	en
dc.type	Book Item	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1002/9781444395303.ch21	en
pubs.begin-page	425	en
dc.rights.holder	Copyright: Wiley-Blackwell	en
pubs.end-page	441	en
pubs.place-of-publication	Maldon, MA, Oxford	en
pubs.publication-status	Published	en
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pubs.elements-id	88382	en
pubs.number	21	en
pubs.record-created-at-source-date	2010-09-01	en