Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery
Book Details
- Publisher : Duke UP
- Published : 1998
- Cover : Hardback
- Pages : 176
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 13523
- ISBN 13 : 9780822321118
- ISBN 10 : 0822321114
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This text presents a cultural history of the connections between beauty of body and happiness of mind. The author traces how aesthetic alterations of the body have been used to "cure" dissatisfied states of mind, seeing it as a surgical form of psychotherapy.
About the Author(s)
Sander L. Gilman is the Goldwin Smith Professor of Humane Studies at Cornell University and professor of the history of psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College.
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