Kathy Davis

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Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic SurgeryHardcover, 11 February 2003

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery
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Part of Series
Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities
Part of Series
Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities Series
Print Length
176 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Date Published
11 Feb 2003
ISBN-10
074251420X
ISBN-13
9780742514201

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 differenc

Product Details

Author:
Kathy Davis
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
11 February 2003
Dimensions:
23.16 x 15.65 x 1.93 cm
ISBN-10:
074251420X
ISBN-13:
9780742514201
Language:
English
Location:
Lanham, MD
Pages:
176
Weight:
376.48 gm

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