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Commodified Bodies

Commodified Bodies examines the social practice of organ transplantation and trafficking and scrutinises the increasingly neoliberal tendencies in the medical system. It analyses phenomena such as the denomination of human body parts as raw materials and commodities, or the arguments used by the proponents for a free market solution. Moreover, it argues that modern medicine is still linked with its religious roots. The commodification of body parts is seen not as an imperialistic act of the market, but as the end of a historical process as the notion of fetishism links the market with the body. Marxs concept of commodity fetishism and Sigmund Freuds theory of the perverted use of objects are modified and adapted to the reconstruction of the joint beginnings of market and medicine.

Oliver Decker, PhD, is a Member of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Leipzig and Reader at the Faculty of Philosophy at the Leibniz University Hannover. 20102013 he was a Visiting Professor for Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Siegen.

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Commodified Bodies

Organ Transplantation and the Organ Trade

Oliver Decker

First published 2014

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2014 Taylor & Francis

Originally published in German as Der Warenkrper by Zu Klampen Verlag.

The right of Oliver Decker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Decker, Oliver, 1968-

[Warenkrper. German]

Commodified bodies : organ transplantation and the organ trade / by Oliver Decker.

pages cm. (Routledge studies in science, technology and society; 24)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. 2. Donation of organs, tissues, etc.Economic aspects. 3. Organ trafficking. 4. Commodity fetishism. I. Title.

RD129.5.D43 2014

617.954dc23

2013043451

ISBN13: 978-0-415-85483-2 (hbk)

ISBN13: 978-1-315-88499-8 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon

by IBT Global.

Printed and bound in the United States of America by IBT Global.

Dedicated to the memory of my grandmother Margarete Decker

Contents

O father Abram, what these Christians are

[]

So do I answer you:

The pound of flesh which I demand of him
Is dearly bought; tis mine, and I will have it.

Shylock, in William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

This study adopts a narrative approach to show that modern medicine and the society based on the production and exchange of commodities are rooted in one and the same ground, and that as a result both enterprises subvert their own goals. This has to do with the ground itself: sacred sacrifice. If there is a shift to the metatheoretical level, this is not due solely to the demands of a scholarly work. The narrative approach to the object of study is closely connected with its interpretation.

This study is conceived as a montage in Walter Benjamins sense, a historical reconstruction of the commodification of the human body. However, it is centered less on the history of ideas than on the presence of the past it describes. Contradictions or fault lines in the texts consulted are interpreted as movements proceeding from the subject matter itself. The applicable standard for judging an interpretation is whether it succeeds in tracing a specific logic in the practice of modern medicine.

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