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Making the body beautiful

a cultural history of aesthetic surgery

by Sander L. Gilman

1999 396 pages eng

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 an…

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