Sander L. Gilman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Freud, Race, and Gender; The Jew’s Body; and Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

“Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul reveals the multi-dimensional cultural, political, and ‘racial’ aspects of the development of modern aesthetic surgery. With his usual acuity, aplomb, and elan, Sander Gilman shows that the distinction between ‘reconstructive’ and ‘aesthetic’ plastic surgery is a thoroughly cultural, thoroughly constructed, and thus thoroughly political/racialized difference.”-Daniel Boyarin, author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and theInvention of the Jewish Man “Erudite and wide-ranging, Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul will stimulate a great deal of discussion. A welcomed addition to Gilman’s already impressive ouevre.”-Dr. George Makari, Cornell University Medical College “Sander Gilman’s undisputed mastery in explaining and analyzing human stereotypes receives a new and fascinating dimension through the role which aesthetic surgery plays in connecting ideas of physical change and human happiness.”-George L. Mosse, author of The Image of Man and The Crisis of German Ideology

Sander L. Gilman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Freud, Race, and Gender; The Jew’s Body; and Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

“Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul reveals the multi-dimensional cultural, political, and ‘racial’ aspects of the development of modern aesthetic surgery. With his usual acuity, aplomb, and elan, Sander Gilman shows that the distinction between ‘reconstructive’ and ‘aesthetic’ plastic surgery is a thoroughly cultural, thoroughly constructed, and thus thoroughly political/racialized difference.”-Daniel Boyarin, author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and theInvention of the Jewish Man “Erudite and wide-ranging, Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul will stimulate a great deal of discussion. A welcomed addition to Gilman’s already impressive ouevre.”-Dr. George Makari, Cornell University Medical College “Sander Gilman’s undisputed mastery in explaining and analyzing human stereotypes receives a new and fascinating dimension through the role which aesthetic surgery plays in connecting ideas of physical change and human happiness.”-George L. Mosse, author of The Image of Man and The Crisis of German Ideology

Sander L. Gilman is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, Professor and Chair of the Department of Germanic Studies, and Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. He is the author or editor of over fifty books, including Freud, Race, and Gender; The Jew’s Body; and Disease and Representation: Images of Illness from Madness to AIDS.

“Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul reveals the multi-dimensional cultural, political, and ‘racial’ aspects of the development of modern aesthetic surgery. With his usual acuity, aplomb, and elan, Sander Gilman shows that the distinction between ‘reconstructive’ and ‘aesthetic’ plastic surgery is a thoroughly cultural, thoroughly constructed, and thus thoroughly political/racialized difference.”-Daniel Boyarin, author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and theInvention of the Jewish Man “Erudite and wide-ranging, Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul will stimulate a great deal of discussion. A welcomed addition to Gilman’s already impressive ouevre.”-Dr. George Makari, Cornell University Medical College “Sander Gilman’s undisputed mastery in explaining and analyzing human stereotypes receives a new and fascinating dimension through the role which aesthetic surgery plays in connecting ideas of physical change and human happiness.”-George L. Mosse, author of The Image of Man and The Crisis of German Ideology