Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery

by Sander L. Gilman

Why 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? Sander L. Gilman explores such questions in Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul, a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. Following these themes through an impressive range of historical moments and players,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822321114
• ISBN13: 9780822321118
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Good book

I'm very interested in the history of plastic surgery, and Gilman is one of the researchers in this field. His approach in this book is unique, and I would recommend this book to anyone trying to understand the history of cosmetic surgery and its psychological ramifications in Western society. Perhaps Gilman's best ability is to tie in the history of medicine with factors regarding race.