COSMETIC SURGERY

Cosmetic surgery clowning to be discouraged

Michael Cook | 07 October 2017 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery

Sleazy marketing tactics are popular in a competitive field

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Hackers steal cosmetic surgery photos from Lithuanian clinic

Michael Cook | 02 June 2017 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, hackers, internet, lithuania, privacy

Threats to post them on-line unless if no money is forthcoming

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No case to answer in UK’s odd female genital mutilation imbroglio

Michael Cook | 04 March 2017 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, female genital cosmetic surgery, female genital mutilation

How FGM overlaps with cosmetic surgery

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Who’s a pretty boy then?

Michael Cook | 25 January 2017 | Comments

tags: body modification, cosmetic surgery

An extreme example of body modification.

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X-Men: fine in the movies but not in real life

Michael Cook | 06 August 2016 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, enhancement, human enhancement, x-men

Americans are sceptical of human enhancement

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Medicine in India #1 – limb surgery

Xavier Symons | 14 May 2016 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, human enhancement, India

Limb surgery is becoming an increasingly common procedure among middle-class Indians.

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Fancy a black eye?

Michael Cook | 26 February 2016 | Comments

tags: aesthetic surgery, body modification, cosmetic surgery, tattoos

What are the bioethics of tattooing one or both of your eyeballs?

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UK think tank to investigate cosmetic procedure industry

Michael Cook | 16 January 2016 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK

Booming growth brings problems.

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UK surgeons call for regulation of cosmetic “cowboys”

Michael Cook | 07 February 2015 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, UK

The Royal College of Surgeons is sick and tired of horror stories and unqualified doctors.

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Putting patient care first

Xavier Symons | 23 August 2014 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, professional misconduct

A British cosmetic surgeon has been struck off the register for putting commercial interests before patient care.

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Kabul’s cosmetic surgery boom

Michael Cook | 14 December 2012 | Comments

tags: Afghanistan, cosmetic surgery

Afghanistan has some of the worst health statistics in the world but it also has a growing cosmetic surgery sector

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Germany uneasy about teen cosmetic surgery

Michael Cook | 12 May 2012 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, Germany

The German government is drafting legislation to ban cosmetic surgery for teenagers except for medical reasons. At the moment, there is no minimum age. As a result, patients under 20 account for about 10% of all cosmetic procedures, according to the Association of German Plastic Surgeons.

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Cosmetic surgery at its best

Michael Cook | 13 April 2012 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, films

"Saving Face" is a documentary about the tragic cases of Pakistani who have been disfigured by acid attacks. It follows London-based Pakistani plastic surgeon, Dr. Mohammad Jawad, as he tries to help two women. It won the 84th Academy Awards for Best Documentary (Short Subject). It looks terrific.

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“Offensive” and “misleading” cosmetic surgery advertising under attack

Michael Cook | 17 March 2012 | Comments

tags: commercialization, cosmetic surgery

Several prominent feminists and cosmetic surgeons have published a letter in the Guardian (UK) calling for a ban on cosmetic surgery advertising.

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Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery

Jared Yee | 25 February 2012 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, enhancement, Korea

The internet is fanning the flame of a cosmetic surgery obsession in South Korea, experts say.

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Is cosmetic surgery “ethically corrupt”?

Michael Cook | 18 February 2012 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery, informed consent

The flames of bioethical controversy crackle loudest in the media when stem cells or euthanasia or abortion are tossed onto the flames. But tempers can flare over cosmetic surgery as well. In the wake of the Poly Implant Prothèse breast implants scandal, more and more articles are appearing questioning the ethics of procedures whose benefits are largely psychological not medical.

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Leading UK surgeons call for ban on cosmetic surgery advertising

Jared Yee | 28 January 2012 | Comments

tags: commercialization, cosmetic surgery

Leading plastic surgeons in the UK have responded to the current crisis in cosmetic surgery by calling for a ban on advertisements for all types of cosmetic surgery, including breast enlargements and tummy tucks. They say the industry is an under-regulated “wild west”.

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Cosmetic surgery industry under fire after implant scandal

Michael Cook | 21 January 2012 | Comments

tags: cosmetic surgery

The UK’s cosmetic surgery industry is under fire in the wake of the liquidation of a French company which made faulty breast implants. For a number of years Poly Implant Prothese had been manufacturing breast implants with industrial grade silicon instead of medical grade. Now the implants are rupturing at a higher than normal rate and a woman has died in France of a rare cancer which appears to be related to the leakage.

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A scalpel for the soul

Michael Cook | 03 September 2011 | Comments

tags: Brazil, cosmetic surgery

In some countries, there are doctors who doubt whether elective cosmetic surgery is really medicine at all, since it doesn’t heal anything. But not in Brazil, where “la plástica” is a national obsession like among rich and poor alike, where newstands feature Plástica & Beleza, next to Marie Claire, and where the legendary Dr Ivo Pitanguy is second only to Pelé.

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The bioethics of Botox

Michael Cook | 02 July 2011 | Comments

tags: Botox, cosmetic surgery

The results of recent study in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science should make bioethicists consider the ethical dimension of Botox injections. Botox, which irons out wrinkles by paralysing facial muscles, makes people less empathetic, says David T. Neal, of the University of Southern California.

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