Download Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture by Victoria Pitts-Taylor PDF

By Victoria Pitts-Taylor

ISBN-10: 081354047X

ISBN-13: 9780813540474

The convenience of accessibility, advancements in protection and know-how, media realization, starting to be popularity by means of the general public, or an more and more superficial tradition: regardless of the cause, plastic surgery is extra renowned at the present time than ever. In 2005, within the usa on my own, there have been approximately million aesthetic operations - greater than quadruple the quantity from 1984, in addition to greater than 8 million nonsurgical methods. leading edge surgical equipment have additionally introduced beauty advancements to new components of the physique, resembling the ribs, buttocks, and genitalia. regardless of the expanding normalization of plastic surgery, in spite of the fact that, there are nonetheless those that establish people who decide on physically adjustments as dupes of good looks tradition, as being in clash with feminist beliefs, or as having a few type of mental weak point. during this groundbreaking ebook, Victoria Pitts-Taylor examines why we think about a few beauty surgical procedures to be appropriate or perhaps useful and others to be unacceptable and doubtless damaging. equally, why are a few sufferers thought of to be psychologically fit whereas others deemed pathological? whilst is the amendment of our visual appeal empowering and whilst is it an indication of weak point? Drawing on years of study, her own event with plastic surgery, research of newspaper articles and tv indicates, and in-depth interviews with surgeons, psychiatrists, attorneys, judges, and others, Pitts-Taylor brings new views to the advertising of ''extreme'' makeovers on tv, the medicalization of ''surgery addiction,'' the ethical and political interrogation that many sufferers face, and feminist debates at the subject. whereas many believe that plastic surgery is a deeply own selection and that its pathology is rooted within the person psyche, Pitts-Taylor makes a compelling argument that the event, meanings, and motivations for plastic surgery are hugely social. a miles wanted ''makeover'' of our cultural figuring out of plastic surgery, this ebook is either authoritative and punctiliously enticing.

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If cosmetic surgery is inherently suspect, immoral, or otherwise wrong, which is regularly assumed in both psychiatry and feminism, then we must be suspicious of the motives of cosmetic surgeons as well as patients, of the makers of breast implants as well as of the women who use them. In this sense, I find the history of feminist critiques of cosmetic surgery to be much less conservative, and ultimately more fairminded, than that of psychiatry. Yet I want to argue that feminism’s own interest in establishing the truth of the cosmetic surgery patient has not been unproblematic.

At the same time, this show and its successors are now part of the debates on cosmetic surgery excess. Real Bodies on Reality Television Extreme Makeover is part of the genre of reality television, the appeal of which is that its participants are not actors using scripts, but purportedly real people. Thus, Cosmetic Surgery Television 41 the audience can empathize with the participants to a much greater degree than they can with actors. 3 Reality television thus has a complicated relationship with its audiences; it asks them to relate to the people on the show as real, but aims to create situations, characters, and events that are more spectacular and entertaining than ordinary life.

Even though she was already considered beautiful, Tess is treated to a rhinoplasty along with her other procedures. The nose job will create a new and ostensibly improved look to her face. However, EM wants to ensure that the face she gets will be the right one, ethically speaking. 8 Tess’s doctor, Jon Perlman, is said to have expertise in performing surgery on ethnic minorities, and has studied ethnic variations in beauty and beauty ideals. Such an approach to ethnic cosmetic surgery patients is becoming more commonplace; ethnic cosmetic surgery is presented as more multicultural, less whitening, and thus more acceptable for people of color.

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