Surgery junkies : wellness and pathology in cosmetic culture /
Victoria Pitts-Taylor.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2007.
- xi, 203 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.
Visible 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.