Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 279 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-80073-032-8
Series Statement:
Politics of repair volume 2
Content:
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 surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people's motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
,
In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-80073-031-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
,
Medicine
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Cross-cultural studies
DOI:
10.1515/9781800730328
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730328?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730328
