Kris Jenner’s ‘new’ face sparked myriad headlines about how she can look so good at 69. It’s the latest iteration of our obsession with people who appear ageless.
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Women are routinely degraded for entertainment in popular culture, from rap to reality TV. It’s packaged and sold as empowering and ‘good for women’.
Selfie-editing technologies are leading some young people to want to start altering their physical bodies.
Beauty plays a role in shaping women’s opportunities in both the online and the real world, leading young women to rely on increasingly intensive and expensive practices and products.
Many people have cosmetic procedures to improve how they feel about themselves – but the evidence is mixed on whether they actually do.
Being beautiful can improve a person’s quality of life and emotional wellbeing. But sometimes, there is a risk of harm — from exposure to cancer-causing UV light, to cheap cosmetic procedures.
Standards of beauty have been embedded in different cultures, in varying forms, from time immemorial. What endures is that women are still regarded as inferior to men.
A new proposal is reigniting an old debate about cosmetic surgery. Now it’s focused on what kind of training cosmetic surgeons should have before wielding their instruments.
The latest plan is comprehensive, sober, realistic and the product of considerable consultation. But it’s missing a few key issues if we are to adequately protect consumers.
When it comes to writing historical fiction, one author finds that it’s the very human details that resonate with the reader.
Our study found encouraging people to do their own research comes with risks – including shifting too much responsibility onto the individual.
A woman’s right to use fillers and have plastic surgery was a topic of discussion on the show after a male contestant alluded that he found women who used such enhancements ‘fake’.
An online influencer’s desire to identify as ‘transracial’ reveals their own racism, transphobia and privileged perspective.
Over the past year, the singer has carefully constructed a visage that has made him nearly unrecognizable.
A growing interest in plastic surgery reflects growing ideas that ‘fixing’ your body will fix your life.
Medical advances were the only positive things to come out of the Great War.
When kids get injured their skin heals fast, but usually with nasty-looking scars. Now scientists studying the genes of old mice have figured out how they regenerate skin and block scars.
The number of people going under the knife for a big bum is increasing – but it carries the highest risk of death in any cosmetic surgery.
A new study explores whether how we perceive our body weight affects our prospects in the job market and at work.
What to expect when you’re expecting an operation.
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Director and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies, Middlebury College
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Professor of Clinical Education and Surgery, Keele University
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Assistant Professor of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania
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Senior Lecturer and Head of Health and Social Work School, University of Hull
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Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL
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Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor of Business, Boston University
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Professor of Paediatric Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer , Flinders University
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Professor, Head of Body Image, Eating and Weight Disorders Research, Adelaide University
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor of Medical Education (Patient Safety), University of Sydney