Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 279 Seiten).
ISBN:
9781800730328
Series Statement:
Politics of repair 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:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 1800730314
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781800730311
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Medicine
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Cross-cultural studies
