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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Blum, Virginia L., 1956- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press c2003.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798081506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.