Cleavage : technology, controversy, and the ironies of the man-made breast /

"Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self-worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobson, Nora, 1964-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers, 2000.
Temas:
Breast implants > Social aspects.
Breast implants.
Breast prosthesis.
Augmentation mammaplasty.
Breast Implants
Breast Implantation
Silicone Gels
Prothèses mammaires > Aspect social.
Prothèses mammaires.
Mammoplastie d'augmentation.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Women's Health.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Staging Babel: A Chronicle of the Controversy
  • The Paradox of the Natural
  • A Pleasing Enlargement From Within
  • The Medical Construction of Need (Or, the "Psychology of the Flat-Chested Woman")
  • Real Suffering: the Creation of Silicone Disease
  • The Specialty Nearest Sculpture in the Living
  • A Calculus of Risk
  • After Babel: an Epilogue.

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