Explorations in bioethics and the medical humanities
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-154) and index.
Cosmetic surgery in a different voice -- Lonely heroes and great white gods -- The rhetoric of cosmetic surgery -- Surgical stories -- Surgical passing -- 'My body is my art' -- 'A dubious equality.'
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Kathy Davis explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. She critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference.