Substantial connections : the transacting of human organs as a moral economy
Publicly promoted as 'the gift of life', organ donation offers a strong contrast with forms of gift giving familiar to anthropologists, where gift exchange is conducted to create and maintain relational networks. Allowing the removal of one's organs after death, to be transplanted int...
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University of Edinburgh
2000
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.663901 |