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Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / Virginia L. Blum.
LIBRA RD119 .B58 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blum, Virginia L., 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.
- Surgery, Plastic.
- Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
- Physical Description:
- x, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Drawing on personal materials alongside interviews and readings of literature and culture, this book considers the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the conditions of identity in contemporary culture.
- Contents:
- The patient's body
- Untouchable bodies
- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance
- Frankenstein gets a face-lift
- As if beauty
- The monster and the movie star
- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love
- Addicted to surgery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-340) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520217233
- OCLC:
- 51163880
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