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 ...

The impetus for these body modifications sometimes comes from an accident — a man called James Young replaced his lost arm with a robotic one that’s something of a high-tech Swiss army knife.

Strategies of body transformation and the construction of social identity were already part of the human experience in Europe ...

But there is evidence of body modification. Archaeologists in the 1980s noted "strange marks" on the teeth of male Viking Age skulls that looked like the teeth had been deliberately filed.

However, Willman and colleagues say the wear to the teeth is more likely the result of a lip piercing. "Our review of the literature shows no evidence for facial piercings in Africa prior to about ...

"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, ...