Medykalizacja kobiecego ciała na przykładzie operacji plastycznych
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https://doi.org/10.12775/SetF.2013.008Keywords
medicalization, normalization, standardization, cosmetic surgery, ideal model, social control, human bodyAbstract
Medicalization of women’s bodies as exemplified by plastic surgeriesMedicalization of human condition including the medicalization of women’s bodies through the use of cosmetic surgery is advertised by the scientists as giving numerous benefits. At the same time, however, it undoubtedly raises many ethical and legal controversies regarding the validity of medicalization itself, possible directions of its future development and the means of social control over ongoing medicalization. In the case of medicalization of women’s bodies there are questions about its purpose and meaning, about the criteria of beauty and about constructing one’s picture based on the ideal model of „socially desired” body. Given a broad range and complexity of medicalization of human condition the author will first give a short introduction to the problem of medicalization and then will focus on the medicalization of women’s bodies through the use of cosmetic surgery whilst simultaneously giving arguments against its use and propagation.
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