Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences
Subtitle: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery (Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: January 28, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780742514218
Subjects: Cosmetic surgery; Cultural studies; Social & political philosophy; Social aspects; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Ethics; Surgery - Plastic & Cosmetic; Medical / Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic; Surgery, Plastic
Description: Kathy Davis explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. She 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.