LEADER 03575nam 22006374a 450 001 9910456409503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-520-24473-7 010 $a1-4175-1057-9 010 $a0-520-93873-9 010 $a1-59734-616-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938731 035 $a(CKB)111090529077444 035 $a(EBL)224202 035 $a(OCoLC)475930037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000155962 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11148949 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000155962 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10122192 035 $a(PQKB)11494148 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC224202 035 $a(DE-B1597)520090 035 $a(OCoLC)55538358 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938731 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL224202 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10057135 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090529077444 100 $a20021202d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFlesh wounds$b[electronic resource] $ethe culture of cosmetic surgery /$fVirginia L. Blum 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4175-1057-9 311 $a0-520-21723-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 315-340) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aWhen 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. 606 $aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects 606 $aSurgery, Plastic$xPsychological aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSurgery, Plastic$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSurgery, Plastic$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a617.9/5 700 $aBlum$b Virginia L.$f1956-$01042428 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456409503321 996 $aFlesh wounds$92466645 997 $aUNINA