Posts Tagged ‘cosmetic medical care’
TOP TEN WAYS TO AVOID NEEDING A COSMETIC SURGEON
Prevention
The Top Ten Ways to Avoid Needing Cosmetic Medical Care
It seems strange to have to say this, but aging is a natural human pro cess. We are finite beings. What is even stranger is that despite the inevitability of growing older, our culture has managed to persuade us that it is a sign of personal weakness if we allow the signs of aging to encroach upon us without a fight. If one wishes to become the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or the spouse of a publicityprone real estate mogul, then the pressure to look “better than good” undoubtedly reflects the reality of a job requirement. For the other almost 300 million people in the United States, however, the message has become quite insistent. One is not normal if not narcissistic. Read the rest of this entry »
BUSINESS OF COSMETIC MEDICINE
We can no longer use only the term “cosmetic surgery” to describe the wide and increasing array of medical procedures available for the purpose of enhancing appearance. Therefore, I use the terms cosmetic medical care, cosmetic medical service, cosmetic medicine, cosmetic intervention, and cosmetic procedure to refer to any operation or less invasive medical procedure that is performed on what most people would consider normal features, usually for the purpose of lessening or enhancing their prominence, correcting minor irregularities that would be too minimal to qualify as reconstructive surgery, or reducing the signs of childbearing or aging. In general, people seek cosmetic interventions to change aspects of their bodies that they consider unfl attering. Read the rest of this entry »
Ethics and Cosmetic Medicine
Posted by admin in cosmetic on June 18th, 2009
Medical Care off the Rails
Despite the growing appetite for cosmetic medical care, there persists a thread of uneasiness in public, media, and medical commentary about it. Some express philosophical concerns: What does it mean for humankind when bodies can be altered beyond recognition, detached to a large degree from their genetic imperatives? Has the value of appearance superseded that of character? Others contemplate the potentially corrosive social effects of the pervasive message encouraging cosmetic physical alteration. Will the cosmetic medical craze pass, or are our future generations doomed to seek out increasing amounts of surgery in order to achieve generic, surgically facilitated familial or cultural norms of appearance? Is cosmetic medical care simply there for the choosing if one has the desire for it, or is there in fact a cultural pressure, heavily reinforced by marketing, that is starting to Read the rest of this entry »
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