E-resource - Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance

A comprehensive resource discussing how people's outer physical characteristics and their inner perceptions and attitudes about their own appearance affect their lives. Topics covered include theories for understanding body image, scientific measurement of physical attributes (anthropometry), determinants of human appearance over the lifespan, the ways culture and society influence the meanings of human appearance, psychosocial effects of appearance-altering disease, and prevention and treatment of body image problems.