Contexts of choice: The risky business of elective cosmetic surgery

Risk, Identities and the Everyday

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 19-35

  Raisborough, Jayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

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