Load-Bearing: How Capital Underwrote the Modern Body

Every nose job, every reconstruction, every silicone implant and lunchtime injectable has a price — and the price was never an accident.For a century, the story of plastic surgery has been told as a story of vanity, or of medical heroics. It is neither. It is a story about money.In Load-Bearing, board-certified plastic surgeon Atanu Biswas traces how financial forces — world wars, the Great Depres...