... surgeons They see the defect from the other side ofthe room The defect (or deformity, as they term it) hails them, flags them down, implores their assistance They see, in other words, the need for surgery ... emphasizes the emergence ofthe female nude as the favorite subject of nineteenth-century painting, which suggests not only the new centrality ofthe female body as the object ofthe gaze but also the ... by their mothers for cosmeticsurgery to their noses Some of them said no, while others agreed One friend describes the tactful way her parents put it They told her that she had a large nose they...
... a mirror “This is thebest I can for you,” the surgeon tells them regarding the face-lift surgery They look up into the mirror to see their skin falling back into their ears— their facial contours ... transform the body— either by way of exercise or makeup or hair color 34 / The Patient’s Body or surgery; the body that is seen as transformable is the body at the other end ofthe surgical ... between the passive and the active, the victim and the agent, the impressionable and the rational, the feminine and the masculine, the infantile and the adult, the impulsive and the restrained (Bowlby...
... happens on the surface ofthe body as well the love for the penis supplanting the object relation The deception at the heart of Freudian accounts of sexual difference, then, would be that the overvalued ... pads on either side ofthe mouth and malar fat 76 / The Plastic Surgeon and the Patient pads on top ofthe cheek “Toward the end ofthe third decade,” a surgeon writes, “ the fat starts to slide ... dynamics ofthe plastic surgery encounter itself The Plastic Surgeon and the Patient / 81 What the patient and the doctor find in each other? Their relationship is clearly only a step removed from the...
... place ofthe loved object In the case ofthe “jilted girl,” superadded to internalized aggression would be the sensed insufficiency ofthe self to hold on to the object One part ofthe ego (the ... experiences some ofthe feelings of guilt and remorse, some ofthe pain which results from the conflict between love and uncontrollable hatred, some ofthe anxieties ofthe impending death ofthe loved ... located on the body And I don’t mean the pain ofthe perceived “defect”— the too-big nose or the weak chin or the flabby stomach—I mean the pain ofthe internal wound itself I will argue that the reason...
... heard ofthe difference of sexes; ofthe birth and growth of children; how the father doted on the smiles ofthe infant, and the lively sallies ofthe older child; how all the life and cares ofthe ... separated off from the infant by the infant Gradually the separating-off ofthe not-me from the me takes place, and the pace varies according to the infant and according to the environment” (111) The ... Rather, what they stand for culturally, the apotheosis ofthe two-dimensional image linked to the idealization of role playing, suggests a significant change in the structure of what we call the...
... practice of assessing bodies through the lens of surgical possibilities As a result ofthe secularization ofthe body, which no longer was seen as merely the dwelling for the immortal soul, and ofthe ... substance but also of place.11 In other words, the existence and circulation of copies compromise the authenticity ofthe original Although the original work is untouched, the quality of its presence ... disapprove ofcosmeticsurgery Instead of accurately re- 204 / The Monster and the Movie Star cording our age and experience, the body ofsurgery is like an altered photograph the radical undermining of...
... surgery in the first place.23 The impossibility ofthesurgerythe film represents is irrelevant, because in the end the film is about the restoration ofthe image itself The star becomes herself—she ... enlargement, whether the condition was one of pure hypertrophy, the degree of ptosis present, the actual scale of enlargement and, finally, the presence of any pathology in the breast tissue itself (The Atrocity ... turning the outside in The repressive structure of sex and sexuality has been supplanted by the “deep” cosmetic secrets ofthe movie-star body The routine tabloid exposés ofthe plastic surgery...
... for which thebest body is the body best suited to the design ofthe clothing That the model wearing the merchandise is a representation of how the consumer might appear in the same outfit seems ... sense ofthe unreality of his environment He spends the first half ofthe film learning where he is and the second half trying to escape Haunting the film is the question of how he would know the ... culture ofcosmetic surgery, then wouldn’t it stand to reason that with the dissolution ofthe identificatory power residing in star culture would come the end ofthe surgical impulse? But what if the...
... overhears the head of wardrobe complaining to the director about the difficulties of tailoring clothing for the actress’s out -of- shape body They can’t put her in shorts because the top of her thighs ... in the theater of operations I recall the scene of a face-lift One minute she was lying in the swamp of 290 / Addicted to Surgery her aging and flaccid skin, and then slowly her face rose from the ... seems apparent from all the accounts that it was thesurgery that gave them relief, even though they had agreed to the therapy in order to be approved for surgery Much ofthe literature on this...
... / 323 CosmeticSurgery and the Paradox of Choice.” Women and Health 24 (1996): 69–85 Gilman, Sander L Creating Beauty to Cure the Soul: Race and Psychology in the Shaping of Aesthetic Surgery ... “Effects of Facial Deformities and Physical Attractiveness on Mother-Infant Bonding.” Craniofacial Surgery: Proceedings ofthe First International Congress ofthe International Society of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial ... Schiedermayer “One Face of Beauty, One Picture of Health: The Hidden Aesthetic of Medical Practice.” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 14 (1989): 213–30 Starl, Timm The Use and Spread ofthe Daguerreotype...
... over the world and understand the words of her favorite songs - Learn new words by heart -Write the advantages of learning English -Prepare period:23rd -Read *Choose thebest answer for the question ... understand them Kate: Do you like studying English? Nga: Oh, yes It’s an interesting language and it’s very useful and I can talk to people from all over the world and I can understand the words of my ... C She is studying in London Key: C * Choose thebest answer for the question Why does Nga think her listening is her biggest problem? A Because she often has bad marks in listening test B Because...
... that most ofthe PHP world can indeed be of great use In a relatively short amount of pages, you will be shown all thebest areas ofthe PHP development environment By the time you get to the last ... portfolio of service offerings, including a strong curriculum of training courses There was a similar demand from individual developers who benefited from these offerings as well and, despite the recent ... a number of funny lines: “PHP is not Java” and “Java is dead” and then, from the other side, “PHP is for hobbyists.” But all one has to look at is the ramp-up rate of downloads for the Zend Framework,...
... those ofthe web server The code above merely sets the value ofthe cookie on the client’s machine The other side ofthe equation is how to retrieve that data when you want it at some other point ... value for the loop, and the part after the semicolon is the portion ofthe statement that repeatedly tests to determine whether the code loop should be repeated The final portion ofthe statement ... comment, signified by the // combination PHP interprets the comment section first, ignoring it In fact, the comment can even come between the end ofthe code and the placement ofthe semicolon, but...
... through the haystack for the specified needle and, if they find it, will return the portion ofthe string from the beginning ofthe needle to the end ofthe haystack If the needle is not found, ... jumps over the lazy ” The trim function looks at both ends ofthe string for the supplied characters and strips them out Notice that the spaces remain at the beginning and the end of this string, ... a subset of text from within the haystack into another variable with the substr function Some of these functions work best together For example, you might find the starting position of a needle...
... code, you can reference the elements of an array by their keys, surrounded by square brackets If we want to take the value ofthe third element ofthe array the contents being the number in this case—and ... phone number) to the end ofthe array, but because we not provide a key, when we var_dump the array we get output showing that the last element in the array has the key of 0, which is the next numerical ... this option, the default action is to perform the task on the last element ofthe array If you want to maintain the original array and make a new one that will hold the result ofthe array_splice...
... verify that the directory exists, we simply direct the browser to the first page ofthe survey Now that we are on the first page ofthe survey (see Figure 7-2), the form is ready for the user to ... so the line of code will now be: $webpage = $MyForm->Begin('save_data.php') ; This file will take the values from the $_POST array and save them into the database Here is the full listing ofthe ... have, of course, just scratched the surface of what the MySQLi class has to offer You can find the documentation for the class at http://www.php.net/mysqli, and you will see the extensive list of...
... “Manual” link The image shown in Figure 8-5 is the result ofthe above code being executed within the browser It is a picture ofthe bottom of one page (to show the footer) and the top ofthe next ... the two items Here is some sample code that performs the creation of both the origin and the destination parts; notice the use ofthe FPDF write method, which is another way to send text to the ... some ofthe methods are used to show the difference between the header and footer areas distinctly The full listing of methods and their uses can be found on the product web page under the “Manual”...
... representing the width and height ofthe chart to the constructor Then we simply start using the methods available to us to build the chart We can control the look ofthe title ofthe chart by setting the ... alternate as the table is constructed row by row The final call to the cell() method in this BuildTable() method draws the bottom ofthe table and closes off the columns The result of executing ... see that it uses the specific sublibrary for bar charts to work properly Other than the proper selection ofthe sublibrary, there is really not too much difference in the approach—there are specific...
... out thebestofthe PHP language We have covered most ofthe basic concepts of PHP and discussed the cream of each topic In this chapter, we’ll look at some ofthe more advanced features of PHP ... timezone with the getLocation method It provides the country of origin ofthe timezone, the longitude and the latitude, plus some comments With these few lines of code, you have the beginnings of a web ... and %d days'); The diff method is called on one ofthe DateTime objects with the object ofthe other DateTime being passed in as a parameter Then we prepare the browser output with the format method...
... broad range of speakers There are a vast number of other PHP resources out on the Web, in blogs, and in book form Take some time to look through some ofthe links that are offered on the websites ... syntax, and not just a few times There is another level of inconsistency that can also trip you up: the position ofthe parameters in string functions is the reverse ofthe parameters in array functions ... part of PHP, but only if you are inept enough to actually write something like this This is not really the fault of PHP Again, we are looking at an area of code writing that is at the mercy of the...