From Publishers Weekly
Carbajal was honored in 1991 by the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights for her articles on the status of women in Argentina. Here she applies her considerable journalistic skills to exploring the rapid growth and often tragic consequences of cosmetic surgery. Carbajal interviewed hundreds of Argentine women who have undergone plastic surgery and uses their stories to illustrate the dangers and fallacies that women accept in the search for beauty and youth including false advertising and deceptive practices used to lure them into sometimes unsanitary surgical conditions. Leading plastic surgeons also contribute their viewpoints on the positive and negative aspects of their profession. Included are personal illustrations of what happens before, during, and after surgery and the mistakes women often make in seeking treatment. Carbajal ends with an excellent appendix that describes the most common plastic surgeries and the risks, complications, and results. Although this is a discussion of the status of plastic surgery in Argentina, the book will be of more general interest because the stories are real, and many U.S. residents travel to South America for cheap plastic surgery. This interesting and very readable book is highly recommended for all bookstores and academic and public libraries. Yolanda J. Cuesta, Cuesta MultiCultural Consulting, Sacramento, CA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
