Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1805393375 ISBN 13 : 9781805393375

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2024

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Alvaro Jarrín is Associate Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of The Biopolitics of Beauty: Cosmetic Citizenship and Affective Capital in Brazil (University of California Press, 2017).

Chiara Pussetti is Auxiliar Researcher at Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She has researched and published extensively on the subjects of migration, healthcare, gender, body and emotions, social inequality, suffering and well-being in urban contexts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1805393375
• ISBN 13: 9781805393375
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Éditeur: Jarrín Alvaro, Pussetti Chiara
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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