Cosmetic surgery stands, for many theorists and social critics, as the ultimate symbol of invasion of the human body for the sake of physical beauty. Interpreted as somehow qualitatively different from other efforts at altering the body, plastic surgery is considered to be so extreme, so dangerous, that it leaves no space for interpretation as anything but subjugation. While such criticisms are...

Concern with body image and medical interventions related to physical beauty has greatly increased in the past few years. The purpose of this study is to investigate how medicine is dealing with the theme of beauty. The 2003/2004 editions of the periodicals Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery were analyzed, in order to investigate the rationality buttressing their discourse....

Facial aesthetic surgery aims to restore or improve facial harmony by addressing specific concerns and enhancing desirable features. This article explores the importance of in our perception beauty attractiveness, highlighting impact it has on an individual's self-esteem confidence. Common surgical procedures such as rhinoplasty, genioplasty, blepharoplasty, facelifts, lip augmentation are disc...

Perception of universal facial beauty has long been debated amongst psychologists and anthropologists. In this paper, we perform experiments to evaluate the extent of universal beauty by surveying a number of diverse human referees to grade a collection of female facial images. Results obtained show that there exists a strong central tendency in the human grades, thus exhibiting agreement on be...

Across many cultures, women are evaluated based on their appearance, with narrow societal beauty ideals as the standard against which they judged and, eventually, judge themselves. Women who internalize ideal more likely to consider cosmetic surgery. Dissonance-based interventions targeting thin-ideal internalization effective at preventing eating disorders and associated risk factors. In this ...

physical attractiveness has set new standards, so that the management body in general and cosmetic surgery in particular become increasingly important; such as a range of different behaviors, health, body building, diet, and different types of surgery include. this study examined the meanings of mental patients for cosmetic surgery in tehran. participants in this study comprised 26 female patie...

BACKGROUND This article aims to investigate current perceptions of beauty of the general public and physicians without a specialization in plastic surgery performing aesthetic procedures. METHODS A cross-sectional and interviewing questionnaire was administered to 290 people in Seoul, South Korea in September 2015. The questionnaire addressed three issues: general attitudes about plastic surg...