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Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
Why do physicians who’ve taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following t...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
September 9th 1998
by Duke University Press Books
(first published 1998)
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