Cosmetic Surgery : Survival of the handsomest

Posted by Jaques Rossoe | February 12th, 2010 in Cosmetic Surgery | 48 Comments »

Consider some of these new features. Surgery is cross and not the privilege of the rich, lower social classes spend comparatively more money. Operations that were previously concealed now made public, with undisguised pride. There are television programs to show the before and after these interventions.

Increasingly, it blurs the line between dermatology and surgery. Arises the phenomenon of addiction to surgery in connection with disorders like body dysmorphic disorder, which leads to concentrate all the ills of a person in a single trait. We analyze the cosmetic surgery as the crossroads between medicine and consumerism.

There is already a ’surgical tourism’. Are held ‘preventive facelifts‘. They even increasingly operate parts of the body for aesthetic purposes: even the genitals. And it conceals a truism of cosmetic surgery: that carries real risks, such as doctors remember Margaret Riley, towards a more rigorous.


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