Making the Body Beautiful
A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery
Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a nose job as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues t…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-691-07053-7
- EAN: 9780691070537
- Produktnummer: 9322943
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 420 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 605 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 605
Über den Autor
Sander L. Gilman is Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago; he is also Director of the Humanities Laboratory there. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Seeing the Insane, Jewish Self-Hatred, The Jew's Body, Hysteria: A New History, and Freud, Race, and Gender (Princeton).
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