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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn,
2021.
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| Series: | Politics of repair ;
volume 2 |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.