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Silicone spills : breast implants on trial
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Silicone spills : breast implants on trial

Author: Mary White Stewart
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Edition/Format: Book : English
Summary: The first broad-based presentation of the silicone breast implant medical debacle, examining the women who had implants, why they had them, and what has happened to them socially, medically, and legally as a result.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mary White Stewart
ISBN: 0275963594 9780275963590 0897895150 9780897895156
OCLC Number: 37761907
Description: xiv, 223 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Breast wishes -- The path of destruction: implant development, data distortion, and the ineffectiveness of the FDA -- Oh, you beautiful doll: transforming the self in American culture -- A nip, a tuck, a lift: medicalizing healthy women -- Women's bodies, women's worth -- The aftermath and the stigma path -- Medical records: negotiated reality -- The medical-legal controversy and its impact on litigation -- Breast implants in the larger context of violence against women.
Responsibility: Mary White Stewart.

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The first broad-based presentation of the silicone breast implant medical debacle, examining the women who had implants, why they had them, and what has happened to them socially, medically, and legally as a result.

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