Cleavage

Technology, Controversy and the Ironies of the Man-made Breast

Nora Jacobson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2000
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-2715-4 (ISBN)

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Using a sociological perspective that views reality and the ""idealized"" breast as socially constructed, this text examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of devices.

Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and ""enhance"" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants. Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology.

NORA JACOBSON is a medical sociologist who conducts research on how the social construction of health and illness affects the making of health policy. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2000
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	New Brunswick, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-2715-5 / 0813527155
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-2715-4 / 9780813527154
Zustand	Neuware