Making the body beautiful :

Gilman, Sander L.

Making the body beautiful : a cultural history of aesthetic surgery / Sander L. Gilman. - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c1999. - xxii, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-383) and index.

0691026726 9780691026725 (hbk.) 9780691070537 (pbk.)


Surgery, Plastic--Social aspects--History.
Body image--Social aspects--History.

RD118 / .G55 1999