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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.

Remaking the Human

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      Publisher Berghahn Books
      Published 1 May 2024
      ISBN-13 9781805393375
      978-1805393375
      ISBN-10 1805393375
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      Social and cultural anthropology

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      Book Synopsis

      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.

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