Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery

Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / Virginia L. Blum.

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: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Series:EBSCO Academic Collection
Subjects:
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects.
Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects.
Conformity.
MEDICAL > Surgery > Plastic & Cosmetic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
Conformity
Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects
Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 356 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.
ISBN:9780520938731
0520938739
1417510579
9781417510573
1597346160
9781597346160
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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