[E-BOOK] American Plastic: Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection






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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Four Stars|By Danielle Sacks|Very interesting|3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Short on analysis|By JYK|The author started with a big premise - the cosmetic surgery contributed to the collapse of the American economy - but didn't quite manage to answer it. The book was an interesting sociological observation|From Publishers Weekly|Essig, assistant professor of sociology at Middlebury College, argues that our national obsession with plastic money and plastic surgery is more than a cultural fad; it's a capitalist conspiracy engineered to persuade Americans that probl

The riveting story of how cosmetic surgery and plastic money melted together to create a subprime mortgage crisis of the body    
 
Plastic surgery has become “the answer” for many Americans, and in American Plastic sociologist Laurie Essig explores how we arrived at this particular solution. Over the last decade there has been a 465 percent increase in cosmetic work, and we now spend over $12 billion ann...


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