This article examines how mainstream media frame and represent cosmetic surgery, tattooing, and body piercing as methods of body modification. Through an analysis of seventy-two newspaper articles on ...

Strategies of body transformation and the construction of social identity were already part of the human experience in Europe more than twelve thousand years ago” a researcher said.

In fact, the ghoulish glamour girl has shelled out over $64,000 on extreme body modifications, transforming herself into what many have likened to a horned-hell dweller — much like the guy who ...

"Body modification — including cranial shaping — was one of ... But artificial cranial modification has been practiced around the world. The oldest example from Asia dates to about 11,200 years ago, ...