Technologies of the Human Corpse
By John Troyer
By John Troyer
By John Troyer
By John Troyer
Category: Science & Technology
Category: Science & Technology
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$17.95
Aug 03, 2021 | ISBN 9780262542319
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Apr 14, 2020 | ISBN 9780262358101
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Praise
“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
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
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