What does plastic surgery have to do with social inequality?
On the latest episode of Culture & Inequality Podcast host Sanne Pieters talks with Alka Menon (Yale University) and Anne-Mette Hermans (Tilburg University) about what Botox, rhinoplasties, and Brazilian Butt Lifts reveal about beauty, morality and inequality today.
They explore how doctors and surgeons don’t just shape faces: they shape ideas of what’s acceptable, beautiful and normal. From race to class to gender, these procedures mirror the inequalities running through society.
Tune in to hear how aesthetic medicine blurs the boundaries between health and beauty, why practitioners insist that “true beauty comes from within,” and how we might understand the normalisation of aesthetic procedures when those who undergo them still face persistent stigma.
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With support from the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) and the European Research Council (ERC)-funded BINQ project (Grant No. 101052649). Edited by Luuc Brans, Kobe De Keere, Sanne Pieters and our audio wizard Geert Veuskens.