Title: Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences
First published: January 28, 2003
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.
Subjects: Social aspects, Culture, Plastic Surgery, Ethics, Reconstructive Surgical Procedures, Soziologie, Plastische chirurgie, Kosmetische Chirurgie, Aspect social, Sociale aspecten, Chirurgie plastique, Surgery, plastic