Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

ISBN-13: 9780822321118 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Sander L. Gilman

Opis

Why do physicians who have taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? This text explores such questions, offering a cultural history of the connections between beauty of the body and happiness of mind.