The greys of the somatic making of health and well-being: the medical practices of plastic surgery in the face of the demands of cis women in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The aim of this article is to analyse the ways in which the processes identified with health, illness and well-being, key to the organisation of western medicine, are brought into play in the specific practice of plastic surgery in the face of the demands made by cis women in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. We analyse the general characteristics of this speciality, its main competencies, situations of interference and objectives, as well as the specific clinical and surgical strategies that are put into play in the different consultations. It focuses on the "grey areas" of the approach to serious burns, the demands of women who consult for cosmetic surgery and the cases understood as borderline by doctors, patients and social and prepaid health insurance companies. The theoretical-methodological strategy recovers contributions from science and technology studies. A heterogeneous set of materials is analysed, including interviews with professionals, residency programmes, profiles on social networks, among others.