CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY – RISKS AND PERSPECTIVES
CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE BODY – RISKS AND PERSPECTIVES
Author(s): Martyna Nawrocka, MARLENA WANDA STRADOMSKASubject(s): Aesthetics, Psychology of Self, Behaviorism, Health and medicine and law, Demography and human biology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Wyższej Szkoły Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im. Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Keywords: posthumanism; orthorexia; body; body modifications;
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to indicate the possible consequences of increasing the dietary, cosmetic and medical interference with the human body. The body shifts from a biological domain to cultural, becomes susceptible to deeper and deeper changes. Transforming the body and controlling it are seen as pro-social and even morally correct, in the same time serving as medium to express the self to the world. This article aims to give some insights on how culture shapes and re-shapes the body, as well as possible consequences – positive and negative – of more and more common interferences in our bodies, by diet, fitness and body modifications.
Journal: Journal of Modern Science
- Issue Year: 52/2023
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 695-706
- Page Count: 12
- Language: English