1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456409503321

Autore

Blum Virginia L. <1956->

Titolo

Flesh wounds [[electronic resource] ] : the culture of cosmetic surgery / / Virginia L. Blum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

0-520-24473-7

1-4175-1057-9

0-520-93873-9

1-59734-616-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Disciplina

617.9/5

Soggetti

Surgery, Plastic - Social aspects

Surgery, Plastic - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-340) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The patient's body -- Untouchable bodies -- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance -- Frankenstein gets a facelift -- As if beauty -- The monster and the movie star -- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love -- Addicted to surgery.

Sommario/riassunto

When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and feminism, Virginia L. Blum searches out the social conditions and imperatives that have made ours a culture of cosmetic surgery. From diverse viewpoints, ranging from cosmetic surgery patient to feminist cultural critic, she looks into the realities and fantasies that have made physical malleability an essential part of our modern-day identity. For a cultural practice to develop such a tenacious grip, Blum argues, it must be fed from multiple directions: some pragmatic, including the profit motive of surgeons and the increasing need to appear young on the job; some philosophical, such as the notion that a new body is something you can buy or that appearance changes your life. Flesh Wounds is an inquiry into the ideas and practices that have forged such



a culture. Tying the boom in cosmetic surgery to a culture-wide trend toward celebrity, Blum explores our growing compulsion to emulate what remain for most of us two-dimensional icons. Moving between personal experiences and observations, interviews with patients and surgeons, and readings of literature and cultural moments, her book reveals the ways in which the practice of cosmetic surgery captures the condition of identity in contemporary culture.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001663399707536

Titolo

Bioenvironmental and public health statistics / edited by P. K. Sen, C. R. Rao

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : Elsevier North-Holland, 2000

ISBN

0444829008

Descrizione fisica

xxiv, 1105 p. : ill. ; 25 cm

Collana

Handbook of statistics, 0169-7161 ; 18

Classificazione

AMS 62-00

AMS 62P10

Altri autori (Persone)

Sen, Pranab Kumar

Rao, Calyampudi Radhakrishna

Disciplina

362.196980727

Soggetti

Public health - Statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797792903321

Titolo

Care of the imminently dying / / edited by Judith A. Paice, PhD, RN, FAAN, Director of Cancer Pain Program, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-19-024430-5

0-19-024431-3

0-19-024429-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

HPNA palliative nursing manuals ; ; volume 7

Disciplina

616.02/9

Soggetti

Terminal care

Hospice care

Palliative treatment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Delirium / Debra E. Heidrich and Nancy K. English -- Dyspnea, death rattle, and cough / Deborah Dudgeon -- Urgent syndromes at the end of life / Barton T. Bobb -- Sedation for refractory symptoms / Patti Knight, Laura A. Espinosa, and Bonnie Freeman -- Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies : mechanical ventilation, dialysis, and cardiac devices / Margaret L. Campbell and Linda M. Gorman.

Sommario/riassunto

'Care of the Imminently Dying' provides an overview of symptom management when a patient is reaching the end of their life. This volume covers delirium and the advantages of early diagnosis, determining the presence of dyspnea, death rattle, or cough, urgent syndromes that may appear the end of life, palliative sedation, and the withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies.