Category: Plastic Surgery In The Media

October 21, 2008 | Breast Implants, Plastic Surgery In The Media

Implants Not Shown to Increase Breast Cancer Risk

Florida plastic surgeon Richard Bosshardt recently wrote on the status of modern breast cancer treatments and the efforts of the medical community to minimize adverse effects through reconstruction and informed prevention. Dr. Bosshardt writes that social recognition of the breast is an historical phenomenon and many have viewed them as symbolic of “femininity and desirability.” […]

October 21, 2008 | Plastic Surgery In The Media

Bioethics Professor Defends Cosmetic Surgery, Anti Aging

At the historic Chautauqua Institution last summer, Bioethics expert Art Caplan gave a lecture about living longer, looking better and why that is permissible from a moral perspective. His talk included many interesting references to plastic surgery and anti-aging. In the first few minutes of his speech, Caplan recalls a story about a woman who […]

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