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Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul - Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Hardcover)
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Creating Beauty To Cure the Soul - Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery (Hardcover)
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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,
Gilman traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used
to "cure" dissatisfied states of mind. In his exploration of the
striking parallels between the development of cosmetic surgery and
the field of psychiatry, Gilman entertains an array of
philosophical and psychological questions that underlie the more
practical decisions rountinely made by doctors and potential
patients considering these types of surgery. While surveying and
incorporating the relevant theories of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler,
Karl Menninger, Paul Schilder, contemporary feminist critics, and
others, Gilman considers the highly unstable nature of cultural
notions of health, happiness, and beauty. He reveals how ideas of
race and gender structured early understandings of aesthetic
surgery in discussions of both the "abnormality" of the Jewish nose
and the historical requirement that healthy and virtuous females
look "normal," thereby enabling them to achieve invisibility.
Reflecting upon historically widespread prejudices, Gilman
describes the persecutions, harrassment, attacks, and even murders
that continue to result from bodily difference and he encourages
readers to question the cultural assumptions that underlie the
increasing acceptability of this surgical form of psychotherapy.
Synthesizing a vast body of related literature and containing a
comprehensive bibliography, Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul will
appeal to a broad audience, including those interested in the
histories of medicine and psychiatry, and in philosophy, cultural
studies, Jewish cultural studies, and race and ethnicity.
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