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Book SynopsisWhy do physicians who've taken the Hippocratic Oath willingly cut into seemingly healthy patients? How do you measure the success of surgery aimed at making someone happier by altering his or her body? This title explores such questions.
Trade Review“
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul reveals the multi-dimensional cultural, political, and ‘racial’ aspects of the development of modern aesthetic surgery. With his usual acuity, aplomb, and elan, Sander Gilman shows that the distinction between ‘reconstructive’ and ‘aesthetic’ plastic surgery is a thoroughly cultural, thoroughly constructed, and thus thoroughly political/racialized difference.”—Daniel Boyarin, author of
Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and theInvention of the Jewish Man“Erudite and wide-ranging,
Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul will stimulate a great deal of discussion. A welcomed addition to Gilman’s already impressive ouevre.”—Dr. George Makari, Cornell University Medical College
“Sander Gilman’s undisputed mastery in explaining and analyzing human stereotypes receives a new and fascinating dimension through the role which aesthetic surgery plays in connecting ideas of physical change and human happiness.”—George L. Mosse, author of
The Image of Man and
The Crisis of German Ideology
