Tracing the Cosmetic Gaze: From Eighteenth-Century Physiognomies to Racial Theories of the Third Reich
Tracing the Cosmetic Gaze: From Eighteenth-Century Physiognomies to Racial Theories of the Third Reich
This chapter deals with the history of the short circuit between external and internal transformations that are essential to the operation of the cosmetic gaze. According to the author, the medical gaze has been in circulation in the West since the anatomical discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. At the end of the eighteenth century, the procedure of clinical examination by a physician came into play, and the tendency to view oneself as an independent and unique entity became predominant. The investigation of the history of the cosmetic gaze is in historical congruence with the human body, which was turned inside out by the medical gaze.
Keywords: medical gaze, cosmetic gaze, physician, transformations, clinical examination
MIT Press Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
