So Yeon Leem
Biographic Data
| ID | 303218 |
|---|---|
| NAME | So Yeon Leem |
| GIVEN NAMES | So Yeon |
| FAMILY NAME | Leem |
| SIGNATURE | LEEM S Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Seoul National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Examining Women’s Dental Disorders through Multi-Level Sex and Gender Analysis
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves drugs for sale in the United States based on its determination that the clinical benefits of a drug outweigh its potential health risks.To make this decision, FDA reviews supporting data collected from several thousand patients during the drug's development.Once a drug is approved for marketing and used by potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, however, the type, rate, and severity of advers…
Gendered Innovation in Asia Special Issue
Making faces racial
Engaging with debates about the re-emergence of the race concept in science, this article opens up facial plastic surgery's expertise of racial phenotypes to inquiry. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of medical discourse, it analyses how this expertise is made and put into practice in three nations with large cosmetic surgery markets: the US, Korea, and Brazil. Plastic surgery has drawn on the scientific knowledge of race from field…
Good science
Gangnam-Style Plastic Surgery
New beauty ideals and particular types of plastic surgery beauty have emerged in South Korea from the early twenty-first century. By defining Gangnam-style plastic surgery as a hybrid of old Westernized beauty ideals and a new science of beauty with variations and contradictions, I intend to twist the simplistic understanding of non-Western plastic surgery as an effort to resemble the white westerner's body. I also draw political implications fro…
The Dubious Enhancement
This study investigates the widely recognizable discourse that characterizes South Korea as a plastic surgery nation by tracing media coverage of plastic surgery as published in two major Korean newspapers from 1960 to 2009.This study attempts to enrich our understanding of plastic surgery in modern times within the Korean context by delineating three distinctive periods of plastic surgery: legitimization (1960–79), popularization (1980–99), and …
Frankenstein ŭi Ilsang
Despite having been published back in 2008, Frankensteinian Everyday: Feminist Engagement with Health and Medicine in the Age of Biotechnology is absolutely worth discussing because of its relevanc
The anxious production of beauty
This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul, South Korea. Examining the three phases of plastic--consultation, operation and recovery--I show how surgeons work to shape not only patients' bodies but also expectations and satisfaction. Surgeons do so in part to assuage their own anxieties, which arise from the possibility of misaligned beauty standards and unforeseen anatomies, as well as the possible dissati…
Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology
Many Korean women felt strongly positive about donating their eggs for Hwang Woo Suk's research, in spite of the fact that Hwang was accused of fraud. It is said that there is a kind of unique `egg donation culture' among Korean women, which urged them to donate their eggs for his research. However, positing such a Korean `egg donation culture' does not seem to give a sufficient explanation of why so many Korean women were seemingly willing to pr…
Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology
Many Korean women felt strongly positive about donating their eggs for Hwang Woo Suk's research, in spite of the fact that Hwang was accused of fraud. It is said that there is a kind of unique `egg donation culture' among Korean women, which urged them to donate their eggs for his research. However, positing such a Korean `egg donation culture' does not seem to give a sufficient explanation of why so many Korean women were seemingly willing to pr…
Gangnam-Style Plastic Surgery
New beauty ideals and particular types of plastic surgery beauty have emerged in South Korea from the early twenty-first century. By defining Gangnam-style plastic surgery as a hybrid of old Westernized beauty ideals and a new science of beauty with variations and contradictions, I intend to twist the simplistic understanding of non-Western plastic surgery as an effort to resemble the white westerner's body. I also draw political implications fro…
The anxious production of beauty
This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul, South Korea. Examining the three phases of plastic--consultation, operation and recovery--I show how surgeons work to shape not only patients' bodies but also expectations and satisfaction. Surgeons do so in part to assuage their own anxieties, which arise from the possibility of misaligned beauty standards and unforeseen anatomies, as well as the possible dissati…
Making faces racial
Engaging with debates about the re-emergence of the race concept in science, this article opens up facial plastic surgery's expertise of racial phenotypes to inquiry. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of medical discourse, it analyses how this expertise is made and put into practice in three nations with large cosmetic surgery markets: the US, Korea, and Brazil. Plastic surgery has drawn on the scientific knowledge of race from field…
Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology
Many Korean women felt strongly positive about donating their eggs for Hwang Woo Suk's research, in spite of the fact that Hwang was accused of fraud. It is said that there is a kind of unique `egg donation culture' among Korean women, which urged them to donate their eggs for his research. However, positing such a Korean `egg donation culture' does not seem to give a sufficient explanation of why so many Korean women were seemingly willing to pr…
Rethinking Women and Their Bodies in the Age of Biotechnology
Many Korean women felt strongly positive about donating their eggs for Hwang Woo Suk's research, in spite of the fact that Hwang was accused of fraud. It is said that there is a kind of unique `egg donation culture' among Korean women, which urged them to donate their eggs for his research. However, positing such a Korean `egg donation culture' does not seem to give a sufficient explanation of why so many Korean women were seemingly willing to pr…
The anxious production of beauty
This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul, South Korea. Examining the three phases of plastic--consultation, operation and recovery--I show how surgeons work to shape not only patients' bodies but also expectations and satisfaction. Surgeons do so in part to assuage their own anxieties, which arise from the possibility of misaligned beauty standards and unforeseen anatomies, as well as the possible dissati…
The Dubious Enhancement
This study investigates the widely recognizable discourse that characterizes South Korea as a plastic surgery nation by tracing media coverage of plastic surgery as published in two major Korean newspapers from 1960 to 2009.This study attempts to enrich our understanding of plastic surgery in modern times within the Korean context by delineating three distinctive periods of plastic surgery: legitimization (1960–79), popularization (1980–99), and …
Frankenstein ŭi Ilsang
Despite having been published back in 2008, Frankensteinian Everyday: Feminist Engagement with Health and Medicine in the Age of Biotechnology is absolutely worth discussing because of its relevanc
Gangnam-Style Plastic Surgery
New beauty ideals and particular types of plastic surgery beauty have emerged in South Korea from the early twenty-first century. By defining Gangnam-style plastic surgery as a hybrid of old Westernized beauty ideals and a new science of beauty with variations and contradictions, I intend to twist the simplistic understanding of non-Western plastic surgery as an effort to resemble the white westerner's body. I also draw political implications fro…
Good science
Examining Women’s Dental Disorders through Multi-Level Sex and Gender Analysis
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves drugs for sale in the United States based on its determination that the clinical benefits of a drug outweigh its potential health risks.To make this decision, FDA reviews supporting data collected from several thousand patients during the drug's development.Once a drug is approved for marketing and used by potentially hundreds of thousands of patients, however, the type, rate, and severity of advers…
Gendered Innovation in Asia Special Issue
Making faces racial
Engaging with debates about the re-emergence of the race concept in science, this article opens up facial plastic surgery's expertise of racial phenotypes to inquiry. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of medical discourse, it analyses how this expertise is made and put into practice in three nations with large cosmetic surgery markets: the US, Korea, and Brazil. Plastic surgery has drawn on the scientific knowledge of race from field…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Body Image and Dysmorphia Studies (4 works)