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Title: Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences
Condition: New
Subtitle: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery
ISBN-10: 074251420X
EAN: 9780742514201
ISBN: 9780742514201
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 11/02/2003
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 233mm
Item Length: 157mm
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 376g
Author: Kathy Davis
Genre: Society & Culture
Book Series: Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Topic: Medicine, Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Year: 2003

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