Negotiating present and future selves : women's decision-making to pursue breast augmentation surgery on the NHS

A material-discursive framework was used in this qualitative study of eight women's decision-making for breast augmentation surgery on the NHS, using pre-surgery interviews. The NHS offers cosmetic breast augmentation surgery in "exceptional circumstances". An interpretative phenomeno...

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Main Author: Hansen, Esther
Published: University of East London 2004
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532554