Beauty junkies
Subtitle: inside our $15 billion obsession with cosmetic surgery
By: Alex Kuczynski
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780385508537
Subjects: Chirurgie plastique; Plastic Surgery
Description: A revealing glimpse inside the burgeoning business of cosmetic enhancement explores the frauds, follies, and fanaticism that exemplify American society's pursuit of youth and beauty by any means necessary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. Beauty junkies; title: 2. Surgery safari; title: 3. The rise and fall and rise and fall of Botox; title: 4. Forefathers; title: 5. Boom; title: 6. What is beautiful?; title: 7. Los Angeles; title: 8. You want it, you need it : marketing the dream of beauty; title: 9. Fat is not beautiful; title: 10. Harvey Weinstein's white, white teeth; title: 11. My love affair with Dr. Michelle; title: 12. The fatal quest for beauty; title: 13. The breast; title: 14. American geisha.