Deborah Sullivan

Cosmetic Surgery

The Cutting Edge of Commercial Medicine in America

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Produktbeschreibung

Cosmetic surgery is big business in America. With demand rising this medical practice has become a modern body custom. To explain the emergence and growth of this demand, Deborah A. Sullivan looks beyond the cultural imperatives of appearance and examines the market dynamics inherent in the business and politics of cosmetic surgery. In so doing, she also considers the effect of commercializaton on the medical profession.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 413g
• ISBN-13: 9780813528601
• ISBN-10: 0813528607
• Artikelnr.: 22386843

Autorenporträt

DEBORAH A. SULLIVAN teaches sociology at Arizona State University. She is the coauthor of Labor Pains: Modern Midwives and Home Birth. 

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Social Bodies: Tightening the Bonds of Beauty
2. Pretty Pleases: Social, Psychological, and Economic Consequences of
Appearances
3. Technological Imperialism: The Emergence of Cosmetic Surgery
4. Medical Entrepreneurs: Market Forces, Regulatory Changes, and Growth of
Cosmetic Surgery
5. Sibling Rivalry: The Intraprofessional "Turf War" over Cosmetic Surgery
6. Caveat Emptor: Selling Surgery
7. Managing the Media Message: Cosmetic Surgery in Women's Magazines
8. Pandora's Box: Commercialism in the Medical Profession
Bibliography
Index