Abstract
John Troyer, who directs the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, examines how technologies are deployed on human corpses to prevent their decay. He argues that preservation practices have changed our understanding of death and dead bodies, transforming the latter into something capable of becoming an “unfettered source of capital”
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 463-465 |
| Journal | Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 2022 |
Keywords
- death
- dying
- Technologies of the Human Corpse
- MIT Press
- dead body
- bioethics
- book review
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History and Philosophy of Science