| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Sander Gilman. Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1999. Pp. xxii, 396. $29.95.

Sander Gilman presents a richly illustrated, delightfully crafted cultural history of aesthetic surgery. Taking examples from ancient Alexandria to present-day Argentina, Gilman focuses his attention on Europe and America from the last decades of the nineteenth century to the present, when anesthesia and antiseptics made voluntary surgeries practical. Aesthetic surgery, better known as cosmetic surgery, is defined as elective surgery undertaken with the sole purpose of improving a patient's outward bodily appearance (at least in her, or increasingly his, own eyes). Such surgeries can include any of the twenty some procedures Gilman discusses, ranging from cheek implants to penial enlargement to transgender surgery or the more pedestrian tummy tuck. . . .

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