Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul - Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

"Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul" reveals the multi-dimensional cultural, political, and 'racial' aspects of the development of modern aesthetic surgery. With his usual acuity, aplomb, and elan, Sander Gilman shows that the distinction between 'reconstructive' and 'aesthetic' plastic surgery is a thoroughly cultural, thoroughly constructed, and thus thoroughly political/racialized difference."--Daniel Boyarin, author of "Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and theInvention of the Jewish Man"

About the author

Sander L. Gilman

Summary

Why do physicians who've taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? This title explores such questions.

Product details

• Authors: GILMAN, Sander L Gilman, Sander L. Gilman, Sander L. Gilman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.1998
• EAN: 9780822321118
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2111-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 581 g
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming, Fashion & Grooming