Adventures in liposuction: a bitter controversy over a surgical technique reveals much about consmetic surgery, a strikingly unregulated branch of medicine
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The professional and legal feud between Los Angeles plastic surgeons Steven M. Hoefflin and his former employee Wallace A. Goodstein is examined. Hoefflin has fought Goodstein's 'subdermal liposculpture' technique; Goodstein's erratic personal life and battles with inept state overseers are also described.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1996
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A Chicago of a novel: in 'The Adventures of Augie March,' Saul Bellow retired the cup
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Bellow's 'The Adventures of Augie March' is the great American novel in its uninhibited and spontaneous exploration of ordinary life, its ear for language, its extroardinary style and its inclusiveness. An analysis of the four acts of its plot is presented.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1995
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The Wittgenstein controversy
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Petty disputes have marred the publication of the first complete edition of the papers of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The six volumes, which were edited by Michael Nedo, are a highly useful guide to the structure of the philosopher's thought.
Publication Name: The Atlantic Monthly
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 1072-7825
Year: 1997
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