Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences - Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery

Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences 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

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice Chapter 3 Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery Chapter 5 Surgical Stories Chapter 6 Surgical Passing Chapter 7 "My Body is My Art" Chapter 8 "A Dubious Equality"

About the author

Kathy Davis is associate professor of women's studies and humanities at Utrecht University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Summary

This work explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. It shows how cosmetic surgery has been represented in medicine and popular culture, drawing upon a range examples taken from the media, music, performance art and literature.

Product details

• Authors: Kathy Davis
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780742514201
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-1420-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 232 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 376 g
• Series: Explorations in Bioethics and; Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities; Explorations in Bioethics and the Medical Humanities; Explorations in Bioethics and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General