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Nature 458, 33-34 (5 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/458033b; Published online 4 March 2009
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Endowed Professorship in Neuroscience
- University of Tennessee Health Science Center
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The body as a commodity
Andrew Webster1
BOOK REVIEWED-Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information
by Robert Mitchell, Helen J. Burgess & Phillip Thurtle
Penn Press: 2008. $39.95, £26 (DVD-ROM)
It is appropriate that a commentary on the possible futures and dangers associated with owning parts of the body — a discussion anchored in biology as information — should be presented as a hypertext DVD rather than as a conventional book. Biofutures deploys multimedia information sources, including video, text, interviews, film clips, web links and animations, all accessed through a central menu.
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