Venus Envy: A History of Cosmetic Surgery by Elizabeth Haiken (English) Paperbac

Description: Venus Envy by Elizabeth Haiken Drawing on a wide array of sources-personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides-Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description At the end of the 20th century, the body has become endlessly mutable through face lifts, breast implants, liposuction and collagen injections. This study traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to its end drawing on a variety of sources including personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals and beauty guides. Elizabeth Haiken reveals how American culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems. Notes The surprising history of cosmetic surgery-and Americas quest for physical perfection-from the turn of the century to the present. Author Biography Elizabeth Haiken is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. Review Part history, part cultural/economic analysis, it explains better than anything else Ive read what made American society so vulnerable to the seduction of the knife and the tyranny of visual conformity. As the idea of the perfect, ageless body becomes ever more dominant in our culture, its important that we-especially women-understand how weve got ourselves into this mess. Venus Envy offers readable, perceptive answers. -- Sarah Dunant The Times of London Original, well-researched, and a pleasure to read. It constitutes an astute analysis of the modern commodification of the body and the role of the medical profession in such developments. -- Roy Porter Times Higher Education Supplement An informative, often engaging account of the history of cosmetic surgery in the United States. Parade Magazine [A] very meaty history of plastic surgery. The relevant race and gender issues are thoroughly worked over (one chapter title: The Michael Jackson Factor), and there are enough horror stories about leached silicone and Homely Girl contests to make one permanently swear off the scalpel. Entertainment Weekly This book charts how millions have spent billions to enlarge or shrink body parts. Author Elizabeth Haiken has pitched a big tent. Plastic surgery embraces self-enhancement, prejudice, greed, submission and opportunity. This is about life in a democracy, where (for a price) any boy can be president and any girl can be Miss America. -- Kate Callen San-Diego Union-Tribune Haiken has written a humane, balanced history of cosmetic surgery, drawing with sensitivity and deftness on impressive archival sources, including surgeons folders on prospective patients... Her book is a first-class exercise in medical history, raising intriguing questions about normalization, ideological manipulation, gender, ethnicity, and the profit motive in medicine. -- Richard Davenport-Hines Nature This is an important book, raising provocative questions about the ubiquity of cosmetic surgery in our culture... Ill certainly draw on its insights when counseling patients considering cosmetic surgery. -- Janet E. Shepherd, M.D. Journal of the American Medical Association An entertaining history and serious analysis of the tensions among professional medicine, entrepreneurial practitioners, and the mutable ideal of beauty that reminds us how unchanging is the American search for self-improvement... If Venus Envy is a history of cosmetic surgery, it is equally a political history of beauty. -- Sharon Lieberman Womens Review of Books Promotional The surprising history of cosmetic surgery-and Americas quest for physical perfection-from the turn of the century to the present. Long Description Haiken has written a humane, balanced history of cosmetic surgery, drawing with sensitivity and deftness on impressive archival sources, including surgeons folders on prospective patients . . . Her book is a first-class exercise in medical history, raising intriguing questions about normalization, ideological manipulation, gender, ethnicity, and the profit motive in medicine.--Richard Davenport-Hines, Nature What makes Venus Envy such an enthralling read is that alongside a host of macabre and no--really! stories . . . there is a hugely intelligent and perceptive analysis of American culture and history going on.--London Times Face lifts, nose jobs, breast implants, liposuction, collagen injections-the body at the end of the twentieth century has become endlessly mutable, and surgical alteration has become an accepted part of American culture. In Venus Envy, Elizabeth Haiken traces the quest for physical perfection through surgery from the turn of the century to the present. Drawing on a wide array of sources-personal accounts, medical records, popular magazines, medical journals, and beauty guides-Haiken reveals how our culture came to see cosmetic surgery as a panacea for both individual and social problems. An informative, often engaging account of the history of cosmetic surgery in the United States.--Parade Magazine Original, well-researched, and a pleasure to read. It constitutes an astute analysis of the modern commodification of the body and the role of the medical profession in such developments.-Roy Porter, Times Higher Education Supplement This is an important book, raising provocative questions about the ubiquity of cosmetic surgery in our culture . . . Ill certainly draw on its insights when counseling patients considering cosmetic surgery.--Janet E. Shepherd, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association An entertaining history and serious analysis of the tensions among professional medicine, entrepreneurial practitioners, and the mutable ideal of beauty that reminds us how unchanging is the American search for self-improvement . . . If Venus Envy is a history of cosmetic surgery, it is equally a political history of beauty.--Sharon Lieberman, Womens Review of Books Review Text ""An entertaining history and serious analysis of the tensions among professional medicine, entrepreneurial practitioners, and the mutable ideal of beauty that reminds us how unchanging is the American search for self-improvement... If Venus Envy is a history of cosmetic surgery, it is equally a political history of beauty."" Review Quote This is an important book, raising provocative questions about the ubiquity of cosmetic surgery in our culture... Ill certainly draw on its insights when counseling patients considering cosmetic surgery. Promotional "Headline" The surprising history of cosmetic surgery--and Americas quest for physical perfection--from the turn of the century to the present. Details ISBN080186254X Author Elizabeth Haiken Pages 384 Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press Language English ISBN-10 080186254X ISBN-13 9780801862540 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press Subtitle A History of Cosmetic Surgery Place of Publication Baltimore, MD Country of Publication United States DEWEY 617.9509 Edition 1st Audience Age 18 Residence US Short Title VENUS ENVY REV/E Edition Description Revised DOI 10.1604/9780801862540 NZ Release Date 2000-03-28 US Release Date 2000-03-28 UK Release Date 2000-03-28 Year 2000 Publication Date 2000-03-28 Alternative 9780801857638 Illustrations 47 Illustrations, black and white Audience General AU Release Date 1999-09-14 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136625073;

Price: 92.57 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-01-19T03:02:25.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 AUD