Politics of Repair. Remaking the Human : : Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement / / ed. by Chiara Pussetti, Alvaro Jarrín.
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, cog...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ILLUSTRATIONS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t INTRODUCTION The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies -- |t PART I REPAIR -- |t CHAPTER 1 Ideologies of Repair in Erectile Dysfunction Treatment and “Men’s Health” Medicine -- |t CHAPTER 2 Repairing Sexual Aging: Italian GPs’ Discourses in the Viagra Era -- |t CHAPTER 3 Repairing the Body and Improving the Nation: Corrective Plastic Surgeries for Protruding Ears in Brazil -- |t CHAPTER 4 The Itinerant Beauty Brigade: Repairing Social Fractures through the Apapacho Estético -- |t PART II RESHAPING -- |t CHAPTER 5 Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of Whiteness -- |t CHAPTER 6 Reshaping Masculinities and the Beauty Industry in Colombia -- |t CHAPTER 7 Reshaping and Hacking Gendered Bodies: Gay Bears and Pro-Independence Catalan Militants -- |t CHAPTER 8 Remaking (Post-)Human Bodies in the Anthropocene through Bioart Practices -- |t PART III REPLACEMENT -- |t CHAPTER 9 Can You See the Real Me? Cyborg, Supercrip, or Simply a Lover of Sport? -- |t CHAPTER 10 Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of Ability in Postsocialist Russia -- |t CHAPTER 11 Learning through Apps: The Replacement of Offline Cis-Female Bodies with Digital Pregnancies and Menstruations -- |t CHAPTER 12 Remaking Desires and Femininities: Testosterone “Replacement” for Treating Women’s Sexuality in Brazil -- |t AFTERWORD Beyond the Flesh -- |t INDEX |
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520 | |a 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. | ||
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546 | |a In English. | ||
588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023) | |
650 | 0 | |a Applied anthropology |v Cross-cultural studies. | |
650 | 0 | |a Material culture |v Cross-cultural studies. | |
650 | 0 | |a Repairing |x Social aspects |v Cross-cultural studies. | |
650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a aesthetic surgery. | ||
653 | |a ageing medicine. | ||
653 | |a aging. | ||
653 | |a anthropology. | ||
653 | |a appearance. | ||
653 | |a cognitive enhancers. | ||
653 | |a cultural. | ||
653 | |a engaging. | ||
653 | |a enhancement technologies. | ||
653 | |a ethnographic insights. | ||
653 | |a evolution. | ||
653 | |a historical. | ||
653 | |a hormone supplements. | ||
653 | |a humanity. | ||
653 | |a lifestyle drugs. | ||
653 | |a medical science. | ||
653 | |a medical. | ||
653 | |a page turner. | ||
653 | |a plastic cosmetic. | ||
653 | |a prosthetics. | ||
653 | |a realistic. | ||
653 | |a reject enhancement. | ||
653 | |a replacing body parts. | ||
653 | |a science and math. | ||
653 | |a scientists. | ||
653 | |a sexual enhancers. | ||
653 | |a social science. | ||
653 | |a social. | ||
653 | |a surgery. | ||
653 | |a technological capacity. | ||
653 | |a technologies. | ||
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700 | 1 | |a Jarrín, Alvaro, |e contributor. |4 ctb |4 https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb | |
700 | 1 | |a Jarrín, Alvaro, |e editor. |4 edt |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt | |
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700 | 1 | |a Pussetti, Chiara, |e editor. |4 edt |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt | |
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