Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery

by Kathy Davis

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0742514218

ISBN13:9780742514218

Release Date:February 2003

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Administration & Policy Ethics Medical Medical Books Medical Ethics Medicine Plastic Plastic & Cosmetic Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Surgery

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