Making the Body Beautiful
Making the Body Beautiful Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become…
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Making the Body Beautiful
Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks.
Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to "pass," to be seen as a member of a group with which they want to or need to identify.Gilman begins by addressing basic questions about the history of aesthetic