Abstract
This scholarly work is the most comprehensive existing resource on human physical appearance - how people's outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance (body image) affect their lives. The encyclopedia's 117 full-length chapters are composed and edited by the world's experts from a range of disciplines-social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences. The extensive topical coverage in this valuable reference work includes: important theories, perspectives, and concepts for understanding body image and appearance; scientific measurement of body image and physical attributes (anthropometry); the development and determinants of human appearance and body image over the lifespan: how culture and society influences the meanings of human appearance; the psychosocial effects of appearance-altering disease, damage, and visible differences; appearance self-change and self-management; and, the prevention and treatment of body image problems, including psychosocial and medical interventions.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance |
Editors | Thomas Cash |
Place of Publication | Oxford |
Publisher | Elsevier B.V. |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780123849267 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780123849250 |
Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Keywords
- body image
- men's health
- adulthood