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Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences

by Kathy Davis · January 28, 2003

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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.

Social aspectsCulturePlastic SurgeryEthicsReconstructive Surgical ProceduresSoziologiePlastische chirurgieKosmetische ChirurgieAspect socialSociale aspectenChirurgie plastiqueSurgery, plastic