▪ Abstract The human body—and its parts—has long been a target for commodification
within myriad cultural settings. A discussion of commodification requires that one consider …

Although controversial, science studies has emerged in the 1990s as a significant culture
area within anthropology. Various histories inform the cultural analysis of science, both …

The rise of digital health technologies is, for some, a panacea to many of the medical and
public health challenges we face today. This is the first book to articulate a critical response …

The manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom is a twelve-meter-long paper scroll composed of
small pieces of paper glued together, with writing on both sides in black ink. Sade wrote it in …

Recent decades have seen a dramatic shift away from social forms of gambling played
around roulette wheels and card tables to solitary gambling at electronic terminals. Slot …

This article explores contemporary biopolitics in the light of Michel Foucault's oft quoted
suggestion that contemporary politics callslife itself'into question. It suggests that recent …

Sense of Place and Sense of Planet analyzes the relationship between the imagination of
the global and the ethical commitment to the local in environmentalist thought and writing …