Remaking the Human: Cosmetic Technologies of Body Repair, Reshaping, and Replacement (Politics of Repair)
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Alvaro Jarrin (Contributor) Chiara Pussetti (Contributor)
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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.
About the Author
Alvaro Jarrin 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).
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- Contributor: Alvaro Jarrin
- Imprint: Berghahn Books
- ISBN13: 9781805393375
- Number of Pages: 290
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Release Date: 2024-07-05
- Series: Politics of Repair
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Alvaro Jarrin 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).
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