标题：The Social Construction of “Patients” in Cosmetic Surgery Book Reviews CARMEN COZMA, Overarching: Duns Scotus and Edith Stein on Individuality and Individuation Problem: Francesco Alfieri, OFM. La presenza di Duns Scoto nel pensiero di Edith Stein. La questione dell’individualità. Roma: Pontificia Universitas Lateranensis, 2011. Pp. 331. --> Information for Contributors -->
期刊名称：Agathos : an International Review of the Humanities and Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2069-1025
电子版ISSN：2069-1025
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：2
出版社：Fundatia Culturala Poezia, Iasi
摘要：This paper seeks to study the way in which the human body is socially constructed, with emphasis on the case of aesthetic surgery. Drawing from semi-structured qualitative interviews with plastic surgeons and individuals who modified their body through aesthetic surgery, it is illustrated a contrast between the medical discourse and the patient’s discourse, in terms of the motives for conducting these surgical procedures. For plastic surgeons, on the one hand, the reasons prompting individuals into aesthetic surgery pertain to their psychological improvement and the enhancement of their inner self, something that legitimatize their intervention as “therapeutic”. Persons submitted to these interventions, on the other hand, waive the psychology aspect and give priority to the superficial factor, elevating body appearance to a supreme value and attributing a purely utilitarian character to their decision.
关键词：sociology of the body; embodiment; cosmetic surgery; social constructivism
