Cosmetic plastic surgery

"Pathfinders" are guides to help you get started finding information on a topic. A St. Kate's Reference Librarian has written this guide to help you perform Library research for your structured controversy paper and presentation. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of resources, but some places to begin your hunt.

Please stop or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652) if you have questions or need further assistance.

Contents:   Reference Works  | Finding Books  |  Journal Articles  |  Internet Sites

Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Women and Gender
REF HQ 1115 .E52 (2001), vol. 1, p. 205-6, "Surgical appearance altering"
(Also see entire section on Body image concerns, p. 201-210)

Encyclopedia of Women's Health Issues
REF RA 778 .G39 (2002), see "Plastic surgery," p. 186-8.

Girlhood in America
REF HQ 777 .G5745 (2001), vol. 1, "Body image," p. 80-84.

Note: Please remember that Reference Books may not be taken from the Library

Finding Books

Use CLICnet to search for books and videos in the Library at St. Kate's and at other ACTC colleges. Use the "Request" feature to obtain items not at St. Kate's.

Search term:
Keywords: cosmetic surgery

Finding Journal Articles

About off-campus access

Use EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP to look for journal articles, adding enough terms to limit the search to your topic. To find only academic journals, click before the box for "scholarly (peer reviewed) journals" or "refereed publications."

Search terms: plastic surgery and image and women

Internet Resources

American Plastic Surgery Association
http://www.plasticsurgery.org/
and body image: http://www.plasticsurgery.org/patients_consumers/planning_surgery/psychological_aspects.cfm

Concerned Women for America
http://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=7051&department=BLI&categoryid=commentary

National Organization of Women (on cosmetic surgery)
http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-2003/lybd.html?printable

Our Bodies Ourselves
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=1&compID=102

Women's Health.gov (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
http://www.womenshealth.gov/bodyimage/surgery/