Technologies of the Human Corpse

Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination-not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways.

ISBN:	9780262542319
Publisher:	The MIT Press
Imprint:	The MIT Press
Published date:	30 Jul 2021
DEWEY:	363.75
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	272
Weight:	288g
Height:	129mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	19mm

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