One in three Australians we surveyed had a new concern about their appearance since the pandemic began. But while minor cosmetic procedures might give some people a boost, for others it’s a bad idea.
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Though Renaissance concerns about ‘borrowed flesh’ might seem outlandish and out of date, they are surprisingly relevant to the modern surgical landscape.
Many historic ideas about women’s beauty - from prizing firm breasts to emphasising the ‘natural’ - continue to resonate today.
Some doctors’ websites give the impression that women’s genitals that diverge from the “ideal” need surgery. This is nonsense – genitals are as diverse as our faces.
The number of people going under the knife for a big bum is increasing – but it carries the highest risk of death in any cosmetic surgery.
Who’s really benefiting from a health care system that provides free or low-cost plastic surgeries for the poor?
People who’ve gotten nose jobs are also trying to revert to a more natural look.
Before #MeToo, Brazilian women launched #MyFirstHarrassment and marched for racial equality. Today, this feminist resurgence is tackling health care, plastic surgery, violence and more.
The history of dangerous cosmetics shows us the harms that women have suffered to meet expectations of what is beautiful.
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?
Top contributors
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Professor of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Anglia Ruskin University
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Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross
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Professor, Head of Body Image, Eating and Weight Disorders Research, Adelaide University
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Professor of Medical Education (Patient Safety), University of Sydney
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Adjunct Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology; Federation University Australia
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Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Reader in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Director Clinical Trials and Professor Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Centre for Mental Health and Brain Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Gender and Culture, University of Leeds
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Lecturer, University of Leicester
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Professor, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Division of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University
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Clinical Lecturer, Anaesthetist, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Gender Studies program, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne