Surgery junkies [electronic resource] : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor.
By: Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007Description: xi, 203 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Surgery, Plastic -- Psychological aspects | Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 617.9/520973 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to viewIncludes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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