The history of dangerous cosmetics shows us the harms that women have suffered to meet expectations of what is beautiful.
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After the tragic death of a young woman undergoing a cosmetic procedure, people are rightly asking who should be able to administer anaesthetics.
The pressures of perfection.
To not screen, and then deliver cosmetic procedures to people who may have body dysmorphic disorder, goes against the medical dictum “first do no harm”.
Breast reduction surgery is popular now, but skin reduction may be the next big thing.
Due to a lack of effective regulations, there is little oversight of “stem cell treatments” and the businesses that provide them.
The Brazilian who transformed the face of plastic surgery.
Cosmetic surgery booms are happening around the world. Here are some key augmentations.
The use of the title cosmetic surgeon and the facility in which the surgery is performed remain untouched in new cosmetic surgery guidelines for doctors.
Surgical makeovers might seem a modern phenomenon but they have a long and disturbing history: from 16th century skin grafts done without anaesthesia to reductions of “primitive” large breasts.
All surgery is risky, so undergoing surgery in a foreign country adds to those risks.
Seriously though - can fashion really damage your health?
Cosmetic surgery in Australia is a billion dollar industry that has been allowed to grow with scant regulation.
Cosmetic surgery is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the medical industry, worth US$2.3 billion in 2010 and forecast to grow to $3.6 billion in 2015. Of this, non-surgical procedures, which include…
Hair loss is no longer an inevitable march to baldness. Medical advances over recent decades mean male hair loss can be treated. And it need not break the bank. The cause of male pattern baldness is well…
Our obsession with women’s weight and attractiveness manifests in different ways in the media, including being sold images that are far removed from reality and often impossible to achieve, or focusing…
The number of cosmetic surgery operations in the UK hit 50,000 a year for the first time in 2013. This is worrying given that the Keogh review into the industry following the PIP scandal, which saw thousands…
On last night’s Q&A, feminist campaigner Germaine Greer suggested a comparison between practices of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and female genital cosmetic surgery (FGCS) in Western nations…
Cosmetic surgery marketing strategies “seem to betray class preferences”, a new study from the University of Leeds has found…
The Medical Board of Australia has just released draft supplementary guidelines for cosmetic, medical and surgical procedures. Overall, they’re condescending towards recipients of cosmetic surgery and…
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