Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery / Kathy Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Kathy, 1949-

Series:

Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.

Surgery, Plastic.

Physical Description:

viii, 161 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cosmetic surgery in a different voice

Lonely heroes and great white gods

The rhetoric of cosmetic surgery

Surgical stories

Surgical passing

'My body is my art'

'A dubious equality.'

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.

ISBN:

074251420X

0742514218

OCLC:

51163598