‘Surgery’

Cosmetic Surgery : Survival of the handsomest

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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. (more…)

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Cosmetic Surgery : Spain, the first country in Europe

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

This was marked by purifying a medical discipline since its inception, the suspicion: regardless of their first-and unsophisticated-application in the Napoleonic battlefields, cosmetic surgery, primarily confined to the nose, had quite a few suspicious applications .

First, was applied to syphilitic nose sunken and criminal offenders with partial amputation of the nose, which was not honored much fame surgery. Secondly, he served for eugenic purposes: getting rid of an Irish nose, black or Jewish, or, as time passed the broad-match bust to waist fine Latin Aryan ideal of beauty. In any case, gradually dissolving the old tradition that vanity was not reason enough for surgery. (more…)

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