.... “Having babies can take its toll on your body”; hence the need for the clinic’s “postpartum perk-up procedures.” In the United States cosmetic surgery, like other “beauty choices,” is a consumer good. Americans do not seem to feel jarred by the continuum of beauty products that ranges from hand...

... of women’s struggle within the power-knowledge complex of beauty and medicine. Relying primarily on her interviews with forty women with sil- icone implants, Zimmerman focuses on the ways in which the breast implant controversy ensued from women’s physical and ideological entrapment in the covert...

... turned swan—no one seems to question why a cater- pillar or a cygnet cannot have its own beauty. In other words, none of them seeks to change a world in which women find their bodies loath- some. All find empowerment and vindication in achieving an aesthetic norm and in submitting to the status quo...

..., Rehema's was most upsetting. She was a strikingly beautiful twenty-year-old widow who had borne and buried two infant children and contracted HIV from her husband, who had died. Rehema's father had died when she was a child, and though she desperately wanted to go to secondary school, her mother couldn't...

... W. Sidel, eds. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 559 pp. $65.00 paper. Ten Lessons in Public Health . Alfred Sommer. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 83 pp. $19.95 paper. Beauty without the Breast . Felicia Marie Knaul. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...

.... The complex interplay of ethics and law likely provides us with an appropriate set of checks and balances. Of course, these are issues over which reasonable people may disagree. The beauty of Kapp’s book is that it does provoke such thoughtful con- sideration. His thesis is clearly stated...

... since President Kennedy. The 2008 election evoked strong memories of the young, smart, and beautiful politician who promised change to the country four decades ago. Europeans generally consider Obama a middle-­of-­the-­road (perhaps Social Democratic) politician with a prudent agenda of health...

...; $17.95 paper. Framing the Social Security Debate: Values, Politics, and Economics. R. Douglas Arnold, Michael J. Graetz, and Alicia H. Munnell, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998. 200 pp. $19.95 paper. The Natural Year: A Seasonal Guide to Alternative Health and Beauty. Jane Alexan...

... that in his reply he was quite candid and frank about it. As a colleague of mine said, “His was a beautiful reply. It was clearer and more consistent than usual.” It was the typical response of a dominant voice who is reminded of where his power comes from. His reply reflects his...

...* Automobiles are projected to be used for 85-90 percent of all urban passenger trips for the remainder of this century, a “rational” choice of urban dwellers according to the book in review. Apparently rationality, like beauty, strikes different retinas in different ways. Like the buyer...

... that the particular premium support proposal about which we were arguing had many of the same problems; he responded that those were “only” problems of “design.” In other words, a real system was inconsistent with the theoretical model, so reality was at fault. Note the beauty of this position...

... provides us with an appropriate set of checks and balances. Of course, these are issues over which reasonable people may disagree. The beauty of Kapp’s book is that it does provoke such thoughtful con- sideration. His thesis is clearly stated and wonderfully argued. I highly recommend this book...

.... 1982 . The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry . New York: Basic Books. Stearns, P. 1997 . Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West . New York: New York University Press. Stern, A. M. 2002 . Beauty...

... in the future. (The example is often given of Odysseus requesting that he be bound to the mast when his ship passes by the beautiful but dangerous music of the Sirens, so that he is prevented from jumping off.) There has been interesting writing on pre-commitment by the philosophers Derek Parfit and Jon...

... become blurred. Had Bosk conducted his research ten years later, what would have been included in the category of genetic “mistakes”? What will be included ten years from now? I hope such a study will be done in the future, because the beauty of this book and others like it is in the “thick...

... of Health Politics, Policy and Law was open, fluid, and congressionally based. (The result was not a thing of beauty, but, owned as it was by the congressional Democrats, it led to actual law.) Second, he elected to negotiate with — ­thus helping to neutralize — ­ traditionally major, influential...

... for Nutrition Education. Sontag, Susan. 1990 . Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors . New York: Anchor. Stearns, Peter N. 1997 . Fat History: Bodies and Beauty in the Modern West . New York: New York University Press. Stunkard, A. J., and M. McLaren-Hume. 1959 . The Results of Treatment...

.... 274–279), and that the medical industry has only three possible future strategies: managed care (“the ‘just say no’ diet vertical and horizontal integration (“the ‘big is beautiful’ diet and her preferred route of focused factories (“the ‘trade fat for muscle’ diet”) (p. 104). Herzlinger makes...

... Deborah L. 2010 . The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law . New York : Oxford University Press . Saguy Abigail . 2012 . “ Why Fat Is a Feminist Issue .” Sex Roles 66 , nos. 9–10 : 600 – 607 . Saguy Abigail . 2013 . What's Wrong with Fat? New York...

... council members sat in silent protest during this discussion. “The Birth-­Mark” is a cautionary tale in which a scientist consumed by a vain quest for perfection ends up killing his beautiful wife when he tries to eradicate her one flaw: a tiny birthmark on her cheek. It portrays science...