Commodification of Body Parts in the Global South
Transnational Inequalities and Development Challenges
Firouzeh Nahavandy
ISBN: 9781137505835
Vydavatelství: Palgrave Pivot
Rok vydání: 2016
Vazba: Hardback
Počet stran: 144
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This book proposes the introduction of a development-related perspective to scholarly critique of the human body’s commodification. Nahavandy contends that the commodification of human body parts reflects a modern form of such well-known historical phenomena as slavery and colonization, and can be considered a new and additional form of appropriation and extraction of resources from the Global South. What are the commonalities between hair trade, surrogacy, kidney sale and attraction of brains? The author argues that these all characterize a world where increasingly everything can be traded or is considered to be tradeable. A world where, similar to any other goods, body parts have entered the global market either legally or illegally. Through a series of multidisciplinary comparative studies, the book explores how forms commodification of the human body are fuelled by issues of poverty in the Global South, and inequality in transnational relations.