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In Britain the market for cosmetic surgery is now estimated to be worth about ¬ £900 million per year, and world-wide it is growing fast too, with people increasingly combining surgery with a hol...iday abroad. The lines between a hospital procedure and a recuperative break are being blurred.
In Britain the market for cosmetic surgery is now estimated to be worth about ¬ £900 million per year, and world-wide it is growing fast too, with people increasingly combining surgery with a hol...iday abroad. The lines between a hospital procedure and a recuperative break are being blurred.
| Series: | Thinking allowed; Series 2012 |
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| First transmission date: | 2012-01-11 |
| Original broadcast channel: | BBC Radio 4 |
| Published: | 2012 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OU Digital Archive web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:30:00 |
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| Producer: | Charlie Taylor |
| Presenter: | Laurie Taylor |
| Contributors: | David Graeber; Ruth Holliday; Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor; Laurie Taylor |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Footage description: | The lines between a hospital procedure and a recuperative break are being blurred and Laurie hears of new research from Ruth Holiday exploring the experiences of people who have a face-lift in Costa Rica or liposuction in Koh Samui. Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor tells him about her study of young British women who view breast augmentation as a beauty treatment, 18 women from one group of friends have all had the op and are very relaxed about the risks. Also on the programme - being in the red is nothing new: David Graeber tells Laurie about his anthropological study of 5,000 years of Debt which shows that dispensing credit precedes even the invention of money. |
| Production number: | AUDA661B |
| Available to public: | no |
