Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.

Surgery junkies wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / [electronic resource] : Victoria Pitts-Taylor. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. - xi, 203 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Surgery, Plastic--Psychological aspects.
Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects.


Electronic books.

RD119 / .P52 2007

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