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Class and Ethnicity in the Global Market for Organs: The Case of Korean Cinema
- Author(s):
- Rebecca Garden (see profile) , Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree
- Date:
- 2006
- Group(s):
- Medical Humanities, TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies
- Subject(s):
- Bioethics, Koreans--Social life and customs
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- biopower, organ transplantation, Korean cinema, Cinema, Korean culture
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6X26G
- Abstract:
- While organ transplantation has been established in the medical imagination since the 1960s, this technology is currently undergoing a popular re-imagination in the era of global capitalism. As transplantation procedures have become routine in medical centers in non-Western and developing nations, and as organ sales and transplant tourism become increasingly common, organs that function as a material resource increasingly derive from subaltern bodies. This essay explores this development as represented in Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s 2002 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, focusing on the ethnic and class characteristics of the global market in organs and possible modes of counter-logic to transplant technologies and related ethical discourses.
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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