Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Dr. Victoria Pitts-Taylor, author of Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture published by Rutgers University Press.

Victoria Pitts-Taylor received her PhD at Brandeis University. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, Univ of New York. 

Dr. Taylor is the author of In The Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification as well as a number of articles and book chapters. In 2002-2003 she won a Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Award from the American Sociological Association. Visit her webpage.