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Mark Ryden’s art for Michael Jackson’s 1991 album Dangerous. Augusto Podrido/Flickr

Michael Jackson: Posthuman

Susan Fast, McMaster University

The album cover for Michael Jackson’s album Dangerous was painted by American pop-surrealist artist Mark Ryden. In it, he depicts a world in which the boundaries between human and animal, living and dead…
The virtual bodies around us are so unrealistic that it’s not unusual for people to question whether they’re normal. Emergency Brake/Flickr

You’re not Barbie and I’m not GI Joe, so what is a normal body?

Tim Olds, University of South Australia

We live in a world of improbable bodies; they populate our television screens, magazines and billboards. If you’re like most Australians, you might sometimes get the feeling your body isn’t normal. But…
Labelling a risk factor as a medical condition stimulates the therapeutic reflex to treat, which may have minimal or no benefit yet risk all the adverse effects. John Chamberlain

When does ‘abnormal’ actually impact your health?

Paul Glasziou, Bond University

Anyone, it seems, can create an epidemic. Witness a recent article in the Fairfax papers that provides “startling” news about the large number of Australians with high cholesterol who don’t even know they…

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  1. Barbie
  2. Body morphology
  3. Creativity
  4. Gender identity
  5. Identity
  6. Over treatment
  7. Pop music
  8. Race

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