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Remaking the human : cosmetic technologies of body repair, reshaping, and replacement /

"The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions - is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surger...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Jarrín, Alvaro, 1980- (Editor ), Pussetti, Chiara (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2021.
Colección:Politics of repair ; volume 2
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies
  • Part 1. REPAIR. Ideologies of repair in erectile dysfunction treatment and "Men's Health" medicine
  • Repairing sexual aging: Italian GPs' discourses in the Viagra era
  • Repairing the body and improving the nation: Corrective plastic surgeries for protruding ears in Brazil
  • The itinerant beauty brigade: Repairing social fractures through the Apapacho Estético
  • Part 2. RESHAPING. Shaping the European body: The cosmetic construction of whiteness
  • Reshaping masculinities and the beauty industry in Colombia
  • Reshaping and hacking gendered bodies: Gay Bears and pro-independence Catalan militants
  • Remaking (post) human bodies in the Anthropocene through bioart practices
  • Part 3. REPLACEMENT. Can you see the realmMe? Cyborg, supercrip, or simply a lover of sport? Unfixing blindness: Retinal implants and negotiations of ability in postsocialist Russia
  • Learning through apps: The replacement of offline Cis-female bodies with digital pregnancies and menstruations
  • Remaking desires and femininities: Testosterone "Replacement" for treating women's sexuality in Brazil
  • Afterword. Beyond the Flesh.