Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor.
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- 081354162X
- 9786611092627
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- 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
- 617.9/520973 22
- RD119 .P52 2007eb
- 2007 G-664
- WO 600
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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.
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English.
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