Creating beauty to cure the soul : race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery / Sander...
Creating beauty to cure the soul : race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery / Sander...
Creating beauty to cure the soul : race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman.
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Publisher
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998.
Date
1998.
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N617.95019/1
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English
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Physical content
xii, 179 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Reconstructing What? -- Psychic Pain -- The Medicalization of Aesthetic Surgery -- A Beautiful Body Is a Happy Mind -- The Phantom of the Opera's Nose -- The Role of Aesthetics in Creating the Psyche -- John Orlando Roe's Pragmatic Psychology -- Enrico Morselli's Dysmorphophobia -- Ernst Kretschmer'...
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Publisher
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1998.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
1998.
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Summary
Reflecting on historically widespread prejudices, Gilman describes the persections, harassment, attacks, and even murders that continue to result from bodily difference, and he encourages readers to question the cultural assumptions that underlie the increasing acceptability of this surgical form of psychotherapy....
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Creating beauty to cure the soul : race and psychology in the shaping of aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-173) and index.
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N617.95019/1
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74VMyVgOkWzy
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ISBN
0822321114 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780822321118 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0822321114 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780822321446 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822321440 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822321118 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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617.95019
MMS ID
991002065739702626
