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Cleavage : technology, controversy, and the ironies of the man-made breast / Nora Jacobson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585275955
  • 9780585275956
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cleavage.DDC classification:
  • 618.1/90592 21
LOC classification:
  • RD539.8 .J33 2000eb
NLM classification:
  • 2000 D-823
  • WP 910
Online resources:
Contents:
Staging Babel: A Chronicle of the Controversy -- The Paradox of the Natural -- A Pleasing Enlargement From Within -- The Medical Construction of Need (Or, the "Psychology of the Flat-Chested Woman") -- Real Suffering: the Creation of Silicone Disease -- The Specialty Nearest Sculpture in the Living -- A Calculus of Risk -- After Babel: an Epilogue.
Review: "Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self-worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants." "Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index.

Staging Babel: A Chronicle of the Controversy -- The Paradox of the Natural -- A Pleasing Enlargement From Within -- The Medical Construction of Need (Or, the "Psychology of the Flat-Chested Woman") -- Real Suffering: the Creation of Silicone Disease -- The Specialty Nearest Sculpture in the Living -- A Calculus of Risk -- After Babel: an Epilogue.

Print version record.

"Women's breasts have been idealized as symbols of femininity and motherhood. They have held great social and psychological significance as objects drawing intrusive gazes, and as images of self-worth to be measured against an idealized form. It is no wonder, then, that a technology emerged to alter and "enhance" their appearance. Nora Jacobson traces the hundred-year history of one such technology: breast implants." "Organized both chronologically and thematically, this book examines the history of breast implant technology from 1895 to 1990, including the controversies that erupted in the early 1990s over the safety of the devices and the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of their use. Jacobson examines such topics as politics and bias in medical practice and the role of bureaucracies, corporations, and governments in establishing policy and regulating implant technology. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

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