Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences considers how cosmetic surgery is taken up in representations of cosmetic surgery in medical discourse and in popular culture, drawing on a wide range of cultural manifestations including televised 'infotainment, ' popular music, performance art, surgeon biographies, stories of patients, public debates, and medical texts. Davis critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Cosmetic Surgery in a Different Voice Chapter 3 Lonely Heroes and Great White Gods Chapter 4 The Rhetoric of Cosmetic Surgery Chapter 5 Surgical Stories Chapter 6 Surgical Passing Chapter 7 "My Body is My Art" Chapter 8 "A Dubious Equality"