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Aesthetic Surgery

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For those readers who want the MOST COMPREHENSIVE compilation on aesthetic surgery, the Taschen book is a Must Read, Must See and Must Buy on so many levels: visually, aesthetically, even viscerally.(some photos will make one queasy). Looking at photos (some from historical archives which have rarely been published before) is like stepping into a Time Machine to see through the decades of the Dark Ages of plastic surgery--- the successes, the failures, the logic and sometimes illogic-- behind those surgical geniuses who started to operate, initially, to cure deformities caused through birth, accident, warfare , but through the centuries took their unique craft from deformity to beauty to mythical beauty and beyond-- way beyond what humans could have ever imagined just a few centuries ago.
I highly recommend this book to the laymen, to the curious, to the medical professional; in an odd way, it is like a medical text coffee table book-- the art, the unique photos, the omniscient text will intrigue and fascinate even those readers with minimal interest in aesthetic surgery. From Nefertiti to Gwyneth Paltrow,from Cukor's A Woman's Face to enlightening interviews with some of the world's most renown aesthetic surgeons, the captivated reader will find endless humans/objects/art and artifice to make the mystique of aesthetic surgery come alive, whether one wants it to or not!