Remaking the Human

Remaking the Human

Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement

Pussetti, Chiara; Jarrin, Alvaro

Berghahn Books

07/2024

290

Mole

Inglês

9781805393375

Pré-lançamento - envio 15 a 20 dias após a sua edição

Descrição não disponível.
List of Figures

Acknowledgements



Introduction: The Uncanny Aesthetics of Repairing, Reshaping, and Replacing Human Bodies

Alvaro Jarrin 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 Estetico"

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-Londono



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

Fabiola Rohden



Afterword: Beyond the Flesh

Lenore Manderson



Index
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
medical science;replacing body parts;cognitive enhancers;lifestyle drugs;prosthetics;hormone supplements;enhancement technologies;realistic;evolution;science and math;scientists;humanity;page turner;engaging;medical;historical;ageing medicine;ethnographic insights;aesthetic surgery;technologies;anthropology;aging;cultural;social;social science;sexual enhancers;surgery;technological capacity;reject enhancement;plastic cosmetic;appearance