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

Author/Contributor(s):	Edmonds, Alexander
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	12/13/2010
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

This ethnographic account of Brazils 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.