The Commodification of Human Body

• Authors: Jacek Tittenbrun
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the present paper is to analyse a number of aspects to today’s commodification of human body; as the latter is inherently gendered, the following comments also have the said dimension to them, with particular, but not exclusive reference to the female body.

Keywords

EN

Marx; Simmel; organ donation; surrogacy; sex industry; prostitution; reproductive; medicine

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii, Uniwersytet Szczeciński
• Journal: Nowa Krytyka
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 36
• Pages: 7-28

Contributors

author

Jacek Tittenbrun

• Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

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