Come si intuisce dal titolo, l'argomento del volume è la medicalizzazione della società,
mentre il sottotitolo contiene già la tesi:“sulla trasformazione delle condizioni umane in …

Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed
with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products …

Margaret Cruikshank's Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America
today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other …

Judith Lorber and Lisa Jean Moore consider the interface between the social institutions of
gender and Western medicine in this brief, lively textbook. They offer a distinct feminist …

In so doing it puts forward a distinctive thesis, namely that within late modernity gender and
sexuality are being reworked in terms of categories of reflexivity and risk. It shows that this …

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary
Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, to Whoopi …

Until recently, cosmetic surgery was associated almost exclusively with women. However,
men appear to be altering their appearance in increasing numbers. Both the media and the …

This article reviews the multidisciplinary social science literature assessing the social
consequences of medical treatment for male sexual dysfunction. This literature applies …

ecent accounts of late capitalism stress an increasing aestheticization, or what is sometimes
referred to as a culturalization, of economic life that involves a stylization of work, workplace …

The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery estimates there are about two-and-a-half
million Botox procedures performed annually, and that number continues to increase. The …