Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement
Herausgeber: Jarrín, Alvaro; Pussetti, Chiara

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781800730311
• ISBN-10: 1800730314
• Artikelnr.: 60100984

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing
Human Bodies
Alvaro Jarrín and.Chiara Pussetti
PART I: REPAIR
Chapter 1. Ideologies of Repair in Erectile Dysfunction Treatment and
"Men's Health" Medicine
Emily Wentzell
Chapter 2. Repairing Sexual Ageing: Italian GPs' Discourses in the Viagra
Era
Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto
Chapter 3. Repairing the Body and Improving the Nation: Corrective Plastic
Surgeries for Protruding Ears in Brazil
Marcelle Schimitt
Chapter 4. The Itinerant Beauty Brigade: Repairing Social Fractures Through
the "Apapacho Estético"
Eva Carpigo
PART II: RESHAPING
Chapter 5. Shaping the European Body: The Cosmetic Construction of
Whiteness
Chiara Pussetti
Chapter 6. Reshaping Masculinities and the Beauty Industry in Colombia
Alejandro Arango-Londoño
Chapter 7. Reshaping and Hacking Gendered Bodies: Gay Bears and
Pro-Independence Catalan Militants
Begonya Enguix Grau
Chapter 8. Remaking (Post)human Bodies in the Anthropocene: Bioart
Practices
Christine Beaudoin
PART III: REPLACEMENT
Chapter 9. Can You See the Real Me? Cyborg, Supercrip or Simply a Lover of
Sport
P. David Howe and Carla Filomena Silva
Chapter 10. Unfixing Blindness: Retinal Implants and Negotiations of
Ability in Postsocialist Russia
Svetlana Borodina
Chapter 11. Learning Through Apps: The Replacement of Offline Cis-female
Bodies with Digital Pregnancies and Menstruations
Daniela Tonelli Manica, Marina Fisher Nucci and Gabriela Cabral Paletta
Chapter 12. Remaking Desires and Femininities: Testosterone "Replacement"
for Treating Women's Sexuality in Brazil
Fabíola Rohden
Afterword: Beyond the Flesh
Lenore Manderson
Index