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
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central