Blood & guts a history of surgery. Episode 4 : Fixing faces [videorecording] :
Fixing faces
- Frenchs Forest, NSW : BBC Active, c2006.
- 1 videodisc (ca. 52 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
"Bring your classroom to life".
Plastic surgery is not a modern phenomenon. It started over 400 years ago with a spate of botched nose jobs, so badly engineered that the nose would fall off if the wind blew too hard. It marked the birth of a whole new obsession. Surgeons gradually became entranced with the idea that not only could they fix the body, but now they could even fix our sense of self-esteem.