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Author Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.

Title Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor.

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  617.952 P687s 2007    ---  Available
Description xi, 203 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject Surgery, Plastic -- Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects.
Cosmetic Techniques -- psychology.
Behavior, Addictive.
Reconstructive Surgical Procedures -- psychology.
ISBN 9780813540481 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813540474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
081354047X (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813540488 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard No. NLM 101284787
YDXCP 2497598
YDXCP 2497599
AU@ 000040640769

 
    
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