Crossing the cosmetic/reconstructive divide: The instructive situation of breast reduction surgery

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 225-237

  Naugler, Diane ^a,b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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