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With advances in science, the human body defines a lucrative site of reusable parts. This work probes the ideological assumptions behind the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair.Sharp, Lesley A. is the author of 'Bodies, Commodities, And Biotechnologies Death, Mourning, And Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer', published 2006 under ISBN 9780231138383 and ISBN 0231138385.
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