Learning to Love Yourself: Esthetics, Health, and Therapeutics in Brazilian Plastic Surgery

Ethnos

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 465-489

  Edmonds, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brazil; enhancement technologies; esthetic health; female reproduction and sexuality; Plastic surgery; social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650403039     PISSN: 00141844     EISSN: 1469588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00141840903201829     Document Type: Article

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