Making the Body Beautiful

In this cross-cultural history of the basic motivations for aesthetic surgery, a biologist examines a variety of procedures and notions of beauty, including European nose-reductions of 16th-century syphilitics, the Nazis' obsession with the Aryan ideal, and transexual surgery of the 1990s. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.