American plastic : boob jobs, credit cards, and our quest for perfection

American plastic : boob jobs, credit cards, and our quest for perfection

"... Shows how the plastic surgery industry merged with the plastic money industry to finance our quest for bodily perfection"--Jacket.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Essig, Laurie.
Language:	English
Subjects:	Credit cards > United States. Credit > United States. Surgery, Plastic > Social aspects. Surgery, Plastic > Moral and ethical aspects.
Summary:	"... Shows how the plastic surgery industry merged with the plastic money industry to finance our quest for bodily perfection"--Jacket.
Physical Description:	xxv, 219 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-206) and index.
Published:	Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, [2010]
ISBN:	9780807000557 (hc. : alk. paper) 0807000558 (hc. : alk. paper) 9780807003237 (pbk.) 0807003239 (pbk.)

Table of Contents:

A short history of plastic
The state of plastic
Plastic people and their doctors
Learning to be plastic : magazines, TV, and other cultural scripts
The mirror and the porn star : ideal forms, cosmetic surgery, and everyday aesthetics
Broken plastic
Resistance
... Is futile?