The biopolitics of beauty : cosmetic citizenship and affective capital in Brazil /

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"The Biopolitics of Beauty examines how beauty became an aim of national health in Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Brazilian hospitals, the author explains how plastic surgeons and patients navigate the public health system to transform beauty into a basic health right. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jarrín, Alvaro, 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects > Brazil.
Biopolitics > Brazil.
Public health > Social aspects > Brazil.
Plastic surgeons > Social aspects > Brazil.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects > Brazil.
Surgery, Plastic.
Surgery, Plastic
Plastic Surgery Procedures.
Chirurgie plastique > Aspect social > Brésil.
Biopolitique > Brésil.
Sociologie de la santé > Brésil.
Chirurgiens plasticiens > Aspect social > Brésil.
Chirurgie plastique.
MEDICAL > Surgery > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Beauty, Personal > Social aspects.
Biopolitics.
Public health > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Brazil
Brazil.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The eugenesis of beauty
  • Plastic governmentality
  • The circulation of beauty
  • Hope, affect, mobility
  • The raciology of beauty
  • Cosmetic citizens.

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