Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences

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Davis, Kathy
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
EAN: 9780585455051
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Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. From its onset as a medical specialty at the end of the nineteenth century, cosmetic surgery has been intimately liked to discourses of normalcy, as well as to gender, race, and other categories of difference that have shaped its technologies and techniques, its professional ideologies, and the objects of its interventions. Davis considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised infotainment, popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.
EAN 9780585455051
ISBN 0585455058
Binding Ebook
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication date October 1, 2003
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Davis, Kathy
Series Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
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