Plastic Surgery Obsession: Brazil's Dr Ivo Pitanguy Triggered It All, Holzer, Jo

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Book Title
Plastic Surgery Obsession: Brazil's Dr Ivo Pitanguy Triggered
ISBN
9780982682333
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Publication Name
Plastic Surgery Obsession : Brazil's Dr Ivo Pitanguy Triggered It All
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Item Length
9 in
Subject
Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic, Medical
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.6 in
Author
John Holzer
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
264 Pages
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CreateSpace
ISBN-10
0982682336
ISBN-13
9780982682333
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99596659

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Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Plastic Surgery Obsession : Brazil's Dr Ivo Pitanguy Triggered It All
Subject
Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic, Medical
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Author
John Holzer
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

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Synopsis
Plastic surgery, a 1950s curiosity, today is an obsession. How was it transformed? Who triggered its mania? Can it return to its roots: treating the disfigured and burned?Brazil's Ivo Pitanguy led plastic surgery from obscurity and ridicule to prominence and praise. He created its first dedicated hospital, founded by far its largest postgraduate school and charity, invented key operations for the head and body, and made Rio de Janeiro the planet's beauty surgery capital.The press reported his operations on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Persian Empress Farah Diba, French president François Mitterrand, and Frank Sinatra. A jet-setting Renaissance man who speaks six languages, Ivo has been friends with Salvador Dalí, Audrey Hepburn, and Michael Caine. He built a fantasy lifestyle---circulating among a Rio mansion, a private Brazilian island, the Gstaad slopes, and Paris salons.His expansive media exposure provoked a backlash that reverberated for a decade. Yet afterward he emerged as one of the profession's most admired senior statesmen.Pitanguy regrets the overuse of cosmetic surgery, counsels how to avoid mishaps, and cheers the incredible reconstructive breakthroughs in the offing., Plastic surgery, a 1950s curiosity, today is an obsession. How was it transformed? Who triggered its mania? Can it return to its roots: treating the disfigured and burned? Brazil's Ivo Pitanguy led plastic surgery from obscurity and ridicule to prominence and praise. He created its first dedicated hospital, founded by far its largest postgraduate school and charity, invented key operations for the head and body, and made Rio de Janeiro the planet's beauty surgery capital. The press reported his operations on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Persian Empress Farah Diba, French president Fran ois Mitterrand, and Frank Sinatra. A jet-setting Renaissance man who speaks six languages, Ivo has been friends with Salvador Dal , Audrey Hepburn, and Michael Caine. He built a fantasy lifestyle---circulating among a Rio mansion, a private Brazilian island, the Gstaad slopes, and Paris salons. His expansive media exposure provoked a backlash that reverberated for a decade. Yet afterward he emerged as one of the profession's most admired senior statesmen. Pitanguy regrets the overuse of cosmetic surgery, counsels how to avoid mishaps, and cheers the incredible reconstructive breakthroughs in the offing.

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