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- EAN
- 9780691070537
- UPC
- 9780691070537
- ISBN
- 9780691070537
- MPN
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- Book Title
- Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of A
- Item Length
- 23.9 cm
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Making the Body Beautiful: a Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Medicine
- Item Weight
- 539 g
- Item Width
- 152 mm
- Number of Pages
- 424 Pages
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Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a nose job as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to pass, to be seen as a member of a group with which they want to or need to identify. Gilman begins by addressing basic questions about the history of aesthetic surgery. What surgical procedures have been performed? Which are considered aesthetic and why? Who are the patients? What is the place of aesthetic surgery in modern culture? He then turns his attention to that focus of countless human anxieties: the nose.Gilman discusses how people have reshaped their noses to repair the ravages of war and disease (principally syphilis), to match prevailing ideas of beauty, and to avoid association with negative images of the Jew, the Irish, the Oriental, or the Black. He examines how we have used aesthetic surgery on almost every conceivable part of the body to try to pass as younger, stronger, thinner, and more erotic. Gilman also explores some of the extremes of surgery as personal transformation, discussing transgender surgery, adult circumcision and foreskin restoration, the enhancement of dueling scars, and even a performance artist who had herself altered to resemble the Mona Lisa. The book draws on an extraordinary range of sources. Gilman is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Darwin as he is grisly medical details, Michael Jackson, and Barbra Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. The book contains dozens of arresting images of people before, during, and after surgery. This is a profound, provocative, and engaging study of how humans have sought to change their lives by transforming their bodies.
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Princeton University Press
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9780691070537
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Number of Pages
424 Pages
Publication Name
Making the Body Beautiful: a Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery
Language
English
Subject
Medicine
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
539 g
Item Width
152 mm
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