Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

This ethnographic account of Brazil s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery takes readers from Ipanema socialite circles to telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery.

• | Author: Alexander Edmonds
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 13, 2010
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780822348016
• | ISBN-10: 0822348012