Victoria Pitts-Taylor is associate professor of sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification.

Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of) Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of) Surgery Junkies...offers tremendous details about various consumers of plastic surgery. An interesting and comprehensive read. (Metapsychology) Victoria Pitts-Taylor offers a fascinating journey into the exigencies of perceived excess in Surgery Junkies. Pitts-taylor structures the book into many useful sections. It is smart and compelling and can be read with equal rigor by undergraduate and graduate students [and has] crossover appeal to a more popular audience. (Women's Studies Quarterly) Whether analyzing Extreme Makeover, 'Body Dismorphic Disorder,' or her own rhinoplasty, Pitts-Taylor makes difficult theoretical concepts clear-and clearly relevant to our lives. - Susan Bordo (author of Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body) Surgery Junkies is an innovative, fast-paced mix of theory and empirical research that advances our understanding of contemporary bodies, lifestyle medicine, and the making of the embodied, self-fashioned self. Scholars and teachers of cultural and media studies, sociology of the body, and health and society will value its contributions to both their research and their teaching. - Arthur W. Frank (author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics and The Renewal of Generosity: Illness,)

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