Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture /
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria,
Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 203 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.
Visible pathology and cosmetic wellness -- Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television -- Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates -- The medicalization of surgery addiction -- The surgery junkie as legal subject -- The self and the limits of interiority.
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Despite the increasing prevalence of cosmetic surgery, there are still those who identify individuals who opt for bodily modifications as dupes of beauty culture, as being in conflict with feminist ideals, or as having some form of psychological weakness. In this ground-breaking book, Victoria Pitts-Taylor examines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable or even beneficial and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. Drawing on years of research, in-depth interviews with surgeons and psychiatrists, analysis of newspaper articles, legal documents, and television shows, a.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English.
9780813541624 (electronic bk.) 081354162X (electronic bk.) 9786611092627 6611092625 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt4jw5d5 JSTOR
Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
Compulsive behavior.
Cosmetic Techniques--psychology
Behavior, Addictive
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures--psychology
Chirurgie plastique--Aspect psychologique.
Chirurgie plastique--Aspect social.
Comportement compulsif.
addiction.
MEDICAL--Surgery--Plastic & Cosmetic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
Kosmetische Chirurgie
Soziologie
Wertorientierung
Kosmetische Chirurgie.
Soziologie.
Wertorientierung.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RD119 / .P52 2007eb
617.9/520973
2007 G-664 WO 600 / P692s 2007
Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007. - 1 online resource (xi, 203 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.
Visible pathology and cosmetic wellness -- Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television -- Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates -- The medicalization of surgery addiction -- The surgery junkie as legal subject -- The self and the limits of interiority.
Use copy
Despite the increasing prevalence of cosmetic surgery, there are still those who identify individuals who opt for bodily modifications as dupes of beauty culture, as being in conflict with feminist ideals, or as having some form of psychological weakness. In this ground-breaking book, Victoria Pitts-Taylor examines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable or even beneficial and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. Drawing on years of research, in-depth interviews with surgeons and psychiatrists, analysis of newspaper articles, legal documents, and television shows, a.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780813541624 (electronic bk.) 081354162X (electronic bk.) 9786611092627 6611092625 (hardcover ; alk. paper) (hardcover ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper) (pbk. ; alk. paper)
22573/ctt4jw5d5 JSTOR
Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
Compulsive behavior.
Cosmetic Techniques--psychology
Behavior, Addictive
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures--psychology
Chirurgie plastique--Aspect psychologique.
Chirurgie plastique--Aspect social.
Comportement compulsif.
addiction.
MEDICAL--Surgery--Plastic & Cosmetic.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
Kosmetische Chirurgie
Soziologie
Wertorientierung
Kosmetische Chirurgie.
Soziologie.
Wertorientierung.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RD119 / .P52 2007eb
617.9/520973
2007 G-664 WO 600 / P692s 2007