Flesh wounds : the culture of cosmetic surgery / Virginia L. Blum.

When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a cu...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Blum, Virginia L., 1956-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Subjects:	Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects. Surgery, Plastic > Psychological aspects.