ISBN:
978-1-80073-032-8
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 279 Seiten).
Serie:
Politics of repair volume 2
Serie:
Politics of repair
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Schlagwort(e):
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
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Applied anthropology Cross-cultural studies
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Material culture Cross-cultural studies
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Repairing Cross-cultural studies Social aspects
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Cross-cultural studies
Kurzfassung:
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
Anmerkung:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
,
In English
DOI:
10.1515/9781800730328
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730328?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730328
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730328?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730328
