Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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879812
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Main Entry
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Gilman, Sander L.
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Title & Author
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Making the body beautiful : : a cultural history of aesthetic surgery /\ Sander L. Gilman.
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Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©1999.
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Page. NO
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xxii, 396 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0691026726
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: 0691070539
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: 9780691026725
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: 9780691070537
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-383) and index.
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Abstract
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"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."
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"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."--Jacket.
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Subject
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Body image-- Social aspects-- History.
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Subject
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Surgery, Plastic-- Social aspects-- History.
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Chirurgie plastique-- Aspect social-- Histoire.
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Body image-- Social aspects.
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Caractéristiques culturelles.
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Chirurgie plastique-- Aspect social-- Histoire.
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Subject
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Chirurgie plastique.
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Image du corps-- Aspect social-- Histoire.
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Subject
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Surgery, Plastic-- Social aspects.
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Technique cosmétique.
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Subject
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Surgery, Plastic-- history.
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Culturele aspecten.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis.
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Plastische chirurgie.
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Cosmetic Techniques-- history.
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Subject
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Cultural Characteristics.
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Dewey Classification
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617.9/5
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LC Classification
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RD118.G55 1999
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NLM classification
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WO 11.1G487m 1999
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44.65bcl
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617.950922
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R622-09clc
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