"Engineering the erotic": Aesthetic medicine and modernization in Brazil

Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 153-169

  Edmonds, Alexander ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

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