BACKGROUND The increasing debate on financial incentives for organ donation raises concerns about a "commodification of the human body". Philosophical-ethical stances on this development depend on assumptions concerning the body and how people think about it. In our qualitative empirical study we analyze public attitudes towards organ donation in their specific relation to conceptions of the hu...

As I wait in the lounge of Berlin’s Tegel airport, I’m three feet but half a world away from a woman tapping away on her cell phone. We’ve exchanged enough pleasantries to discover that we don’t speak the same language, but I’m convinced I can learn her story from the dance of her ngers across the screen and the movements of her face. Between bursts of action with her thumbs, her right index ng...

This study attempts to provide a framework for understanding the role of the “embeddedness” in China’s economic success reflected by a unique embedded integration of state-market-society relations. “Embeddedness with Chinese characteristics” is the central concept of this study for analyzing how cultural and political uniqueness influences economic activities and shapes distinctive institutiona...

Rural commodification with rural transformation development is a potential research agenda for geography. Based on semi-structured interviews in five times fieldwork Xixinan Village, Huangshan, China, this article examines how the township government as an actor entrepreneurialism promotes of place areas and its impact development. It was found that has drawn economic returns from different sub...

Corporate medical practice, a market economy, and a consumer culture are transforming health care. The service relationships of doctors with patients are now commodities. The doctor, directed by disease management protocols (to improve outcomes, reduce costs, and standardize care), is, in effect, providing programmed service commodities. In addition, medical-surgical specialties, now "packaged"...

Abstract The recent proliferation of settler colonial and Indigenous studies Palestine have addressed the historical present-day enclosure Palestinian land, yet question ‘indigeneity’ is underexamined in this literature. Claims to indigeneity straddle varied definitions: a racial category; as constructed through encounter or preceding colonialism; local relation an international juridico-politi...

The rapidly developing relationship between tourism and creativity, arguably heralds a ‘creative turn’ in tourism studies. Creativity has been employed to transform traditional cultural tourism, shifting from tangible heritage towards more intangible culture and greater involvement with the everyday life of the destination. The emergence of ‘creative tourism’ reflects the growing integration be...

In the commodification of consent, a legal concept designed to empower users has been transformed into an asset that can be traded across firms. Users interact with consent dialog offered by one coalition member. The default setting allows any other member, including both publishers and third-party vendors, use this as basis for processing personal data. doing so, creates interdependent privacy...