The November 2009 issue of Economic Sociology, The European Electronic Newsletter, is largely devoted to discussion of "commodification of the body." Here are the articles, which concern cadavers, organs for transplantation, blood, and eggs and sperm.
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name by Michel Anteby
The Tyranny and the Terror of the Gift by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Honestly Embracing Markets in Human Organs for Transplantation by Mark J. Cherry
Between Gift and Commodity: Blood Products in France by Sophie Chauveau
Debt and Gratitude by Lea Karpel
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