Flesh wounds: the culture of cosmetic surgery
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1. Verfasser: Blum, Virginia L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©2003
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index
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
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 culture of cosmetic surgery
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 356 pages)
ISBN:0520217233
0520938739
1417510579
1597346160
9780520217232
9780520938731
9781417510573
9781597346160

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