Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery

Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery /

When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu...

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Main Author: Blum, Virginia L., 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003
Series:EBSCO Academic Collection
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects.
Conformity.
Surgery, Plastic > psychology
Body Image
Social Conformity
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • The patient's body
  • Untouchable bodies
  • The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance
  • Frankenstein gets a facelift
  • As if beauty
  • The monster and the movie star
  • Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love
  • Addicted to surgery.

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