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American plastic : boob jobs, credit cards, and our quest for perfection / Laurie Essig.
Publication details: Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2010.Description: xxv, 219 p. ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780807000557 :
- 0807000558 :
- Credit cards -- United States
- Credit -- United States
- Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects
- Surgery, Plastic -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Surgery, Plastic -- economics -- United States -- Popular Works
- Surgery, Plastic -- ethics -- United States -- Popular Works
- Beauty -- United States -- Popular Works
- Social Conditions -- trends -- United States -- Popular Works
- Socioeconomic Factors -- United States -- Popular Works
- HG3755.8.U6 E87 2010
Contents:
Summary: "... Shows how the plastic surgery industry merged with the plastic money industry to finance our quest for bodily perfection"--Jacket.
A short history of plastic -- The state of plastic -- Plastic people and their doctors -- Learning to be plastic : magazines, TV, and other cultural scripts -- The mirror and the porn star : ideal forms, cosmetic surgery, and everyday aesthetics -- Broken plastic -- Resistance -- ... Is futile?
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | HG 3755.8 .U6 E87 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5096264 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 190-206) and index.
A short history of plastic -- The state of plastic -- Plastic people and their doctors -- Learning to be plastic : magazines, TV, and other cultural scripts -- The mirror and the porn star : ideal forms, cosmetic surgery, and everyday aesthetics -- Broken plastic -- Resistance -- ... Is futile?
"... Shows how the plastic surgery industry merged with the plastic money industry to finance our quest for bodily perfection"--Jacket.
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