PLASTIC SURGERY

Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery

Introduction

The side I have chosen for the topic plastic surgery is against it. I will be presenting my arguments in the paper on each following paragraph. Then I would present the opposing side before the final conclusion. Plastic surgery at one time was advised as an agency of general medical services in Korea, has lately skilled a rapid expansion in market scale. The surgery has treasured in hundreds and thousands of dollars and is undergoing a method of industrialization. Specialists note that cosmetic surgery sales increased by approximately 17 per hundred from 1999 to 2000, coming to nearly 144 million dollars. Compared with other medical specialties, Plastic surgery is a highly gender based practice. In 2008, 91 percent of U.S. Plastic surgery patients were women and in 2000, 85 percent of Plastic surgeons were men. Plastic surgery exists within a range of body modification practices for women to more closely approximate cultural ideals such as wearing makeup, dieting, foundation garments, and exercising (Lock, 2010).

Discussion

Plastic surgery is also identified within popular media as a source of unrealistic body expectations for women and girls, in addition to the manipulation of, photographic images and valorization of anorectic body types. Because Plastic surgery is a medical procedure that is elective and usually financed by the patient (rather than state or private insurance), it is the patient who holds the authority to diagnose the problem that the surgeon will address, which is contrary to most other medical and surgical procedures. In response to this tipping of power, discourses of Plastic surgery in the West often adhere to strict sexist and heterosexual codes of behavior conceiving the patient as an undisciplined female body who submits to the help of the skilled and valiant male surgeon. This evidenced most strongly in anecdotal accounts of ...