Women, Doctors and Cosmetic Surgery: Negotiating the 'Normal' Body

 

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 230 pages
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (April 13, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780230574007
  • ISBN-13: 978-0230574007
  • ASIN: 0230574009

Product Description

This book explores an innovative study of women who undergo cosmetic study and the doctors who carry it out. It situates cosmetic surgery as a personal choice made by women against the social and cultural reality of the way womens bodies are scrutinised in Western countries.

About the Author

RHIAN PARKER is Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Melbourne and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canberra, Australia.
 
 

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