More Than Skin Deep Exploring the Real Reasons Why Women Go under the Knife

Name: More Than Skin Deep Exploring the Real Reasons Why Women Go under the Knife
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ISBN: 9780060577889

ISBN-10: 0060577886

ISBN-13: 9780060577889

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Loren Eskenazi, Peg Streep

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Is our obsession with cosmetic surgery just a testament to our vanity and narcissism, or is it really about something else? Dr. Loren Eskenazi-one of America's foremost female plastic surgeons-offers a provocative new perspective on what motivates nearly eight million women a year to "go under the knife." Drawing on her twenty-five years of experience as a surgeon as well as a patient, Dr. Eskenazi lays bare the myths and misconceptions about cosmetic surgery and the women who have it, and opens a window on why women at key transitional points in their lives will often seek to physically alter themselves through surgery. Dr. Eskenazi uncovers the deeper meaning and cost of our…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/6/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Peg Streep is both the daughter of a mean mother and the devoted mother of an adult daughter. She is the author or coauthor of nine books, including Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence and the bestselling Necessary Journeys: Letting Ourselves Learn from Life, both with Dr. Nancy L. Snyderman. Streep holds degrees in English from the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. A native New Yorker, she is married and lives in Burlington, Vermont.