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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
c2003.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798081506719 |
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.
