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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Embalmed Vision Chapter 2: The Happy Death Movement Chapter 3: The HIV/AIDS Corpse Chapter 4: Plastinating Taxonomies Chapter 5: The Global Trade in Death, Dying and Human Body Parts Chapter 6: Biopolitics, Thanatopolitics, and Necropolitics Chapter 7: Patenting Death Coda: Planning for Death The Last Page Notes Works Cited and Consulted List of Figures Index

About the Author :
John Troyer is Director of the Centre for Death and Society and Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He grew up in the American funeral industry.

Review :
"Troyer's acclaimed book, Technologies of the Human Corpse, takes stock of the evolution of the value and significance of the dead human body" —NPR's All Things Considered "Troyer is one of our greatest thinkers on the ways technology and capitalism continue to transform the idea of the human corpse." —Caitlin Doughty, mortician and bestselling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes "Troyer shows us how death can breathe new life into technology studies! Insightful, intimate, and often touching, Technologies of the Human Corpse provides a roomy critique of the matter and meaning of human mortality." —Philip Olson, Associate Professor of STS, Virginia Tech "With masterly skill and compassion, Troyer moves effortlessly between the interconnected worlds of personal loss and professional death studies.  He examines the post war history, life and value of the corpse and leaves us musing about our own life, death, and that critical threshold that lies between." —Professor Dame Sue Black, author of All That Remains: A Life in Death "This book is at once a theoretical study of the birth of the modern corpse and a very personal story of death and loss. By its very structure, it demonstrates how real death—no matter how professionally familiar—punctures our attempts to control or rationalize it. A brave, important, and very human work by a major thinker in death studies." —Joanna Ebenstein, Founder and Creative Director, Morbid Anatomy "Troyer's argument for more transparency and regulation of corpses sits alongside his deeply moving account of his sister's death, making his book both personal and poignant." —Candi K. Cann, Associate Professor, Baylor University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262542319
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 272
  • Width: 137 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0262542315
  • Publisher Date: 03 Aug 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y


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