Wehling-060705.doc

increasingly expanding beyond well- defined therapeutic contexts. Peter Wehling, Social Inequalities 7 16), a virtually everyday practice that is no longer a taboo. In his book "Cul- tural History of Aesthetic [...] younger, and although women are still in the major- ity, more and more men also use cos- metic surgery.7 One's "own" body increasingly seems to be regarded as something that can be shaped to suit one's wishes [...] a company. Cosmetic surgery has transformed and radicalised these practices by no longer aiming at 7 There is now a debate in the social sci- ences as to how far these equalizing ten- dencies will go. …