Do You Not Know that Your Bodies are Members of Christ?: Towards a Christian Body Politics and the Cultural Practice of Cosmetic Surgery
The contemporary rise in the West of cosmetic surgery as a cultural practice expresses the story of the late modern self as autonomous renovator, and the body as disenchanted raw material and individual possession. Technological biomedicine offers itself as the institution ready to assist this refle...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 4, Pages: 407-428 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics |
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cosmetic surgery
B Christians B Sacramentals B Bioethics B footwashing B Self B Body B PLASTIC surgery B THEORY of self-knowledge |
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