Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement: 2 (Politics of Repair, 2)

ISBN 10: 1800730314 ISBN 13: 9781800730311

Verlag: Berghahn Books, 2021

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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�ber die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alvaro Jarr�n 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.

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Verlag: Berghahn Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN 10: 1800730314
ISBN 13: 9781800730311
Einband: Encuadernaci�n de biblioteca
Auflage: 1
Anzahl der Seiten: 290
Herausgeber: Jarr�n Alvaro, Pussetti Chiara
Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verf�gbar
Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de
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