American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over...
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Heart Matters
A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
Written by Kathy Magliato, M.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $14.00
An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform...
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Heart Matters
A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
Written by Kathy Magliato, M.D.
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $9.99
An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform...
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American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and the Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $26.95
The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body Plastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in
American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has...
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American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $23.95
The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body Plastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in
American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a...
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Healing Hearts
A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
Written by Kathy Magliato, M.D.
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Price: $14.99
An inspiring, surprising, sometimes shocking, and ultimately deeply informative memoir of the high-stakes, high-pressured life of a female heart surgeon
Dr. Kathy Magliato is one of the few female heart surgeons practicing in the world today. She is also a member of an even more exclusive group—those surgeons specially trained to perform...
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Gifted Hands
America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery
Written by Seymour I. Schwartz
Format: Hardcover, 259 pages
On Sale: January 27, 2009
Price: $27.95
The United States enjoys an established and essentially unchallenged role in the field of surgery. In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, renowned surgeon Seymour I. Schwartz, MD, describes how surgery in this country advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the pre-Columbian and colonial eras to...
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