Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.

Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture / Victoria Pitts-Taylor. - New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007. - xi, 203 p. ; 23 cm.

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.

9780813540474 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813540481 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2006025456


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

RD119 / .P52 2007

617.9/520973

WO 600 / P692s 2007