Description
Book SynopsisExamines why we consider some cosmetic surgeries to be acceptable and others to be unacceptable and possibly harmful. This book brings fresh perspectives to the promotion of extreme makeovers on television, the medicalization of surgery addiction, the moral and political interrogation that many patients face, and feminist debates on the topic.
Trade ReviewSurgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *
Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of *
Surgery Junkies...offers tremendous details about various consumers of plastic surgery. An interesting and comprehensive read. * Metapsychology *
Victoria Pitts-Taylor offers a fascinating journey into the exigencies of perceived excess in Surgery Junkies. Pitts-taylor structures the book into many useful sections. It is smart and compelling and can be read with equal rigor by undergraduate and graduate students [and has] crossover appeal to a more popular audience. * Women's Studies Quarterly *
Whether analyzing Extreme Makeover, 'Body Dismorphic Disorder,' or her own rhinoplasty, Pitts-Taylor makes difficult theoretical concepts clear-and clearly relevant to our lives. -- Susan Bordo * author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body *
Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. -- Arthur W. Frank * author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness, *
Table of ContentsVisible pathology and cosmetic wellness
Normal extremes: cosmetic surgery television
Miss World, Ms. Ugly : feminist debates
The medicalization of surgery addiction
The surgery junkie as legal subject
The self and the limits of interiority
