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Author Haiken, Elizabeth.

Title Venus envy : a history of cosmetic surgery / Elizabeth Haiken.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  617.95 HAIKEN    Check Shelf
Description ix, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-352) and index.
Contents Present at the re-creation -- Plastic surgery before and after -- The specialty takes shape -- Consumer culture and the inferiority complex -- The lifting of the middle class: Aging in Post-World War II America -- The Michael Jackson factor: Race, ethnicity, and cosmetic surgery -- Beauty and the breast -- The eye of the beholder.
Subject Surgery, Plastic -- Social aspects -- United States.
Surgery, Plastic -- United States -- History.
Beauty, Personal -- Social aspects -- United States.
Surgery, Plastic -- United States -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Beauty, Personal -- United States -- Public opinion.
Beauty, Personal -- United States.
Public Opinion -- United States.
Plastic Surgery Procedures -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0801857635 cloth alkaline paper
080186254X paperback alkaline paper
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