disease and beauty: living in a constructed society
Hello! I am Yiran (Vanessa) Zhang, a high school student from Beijing, China. Welcome and welcome to my intellectual world!
As a biology student, I’ve approached diseases from their biomedical aspects. However, as I studied through disciplines, I’ve found the social, psychological, and even moral aspects of diseases intriguing. In this blog, I will be writing on three topics surrounding human diseases: 1) How diseases are socially constructed; 2) How beauty ideals, fashion trends, and aesthetic standards interacted with health and illness; 3) The depiction and perception of illness expereinces from multiple perspectives.
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