Surgery junkies
Subtitle: wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture
By: Victoria Pitts-Taylor.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780813540481
Description: 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.