Word: plasticities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...nature of energy politics and environmental fads promotes embracing the easy, often more popular fix at the expense of the best one, typically at the governmental and corporate level. The Whole Foods chain’s absolute abandonment of plastic bags (which, as was elegantly stated on this page last week, might end up increasing its customers’ environmental impact) is one of dozens of examples of a major corporation polishing its environmental boilerplate without retrofitting its inefficient engine...
When Dr. Michael Salzhauer became concerned about his plastic surgery practice’s effect on families, he decided to respond in the most effective way possible: by writing a children’s book. Entitled “My Perfect Mommy,” the tale tells of a young girl whose mother undergoes a nose job, tummy tuck, and breast augmentation. Aiming his story at a four- to seven-year-old audiences, Salzhauer is ostensibly attempting to allay the apprehension of children whose mothers go under the cosmetic scalpel. (See correction below...
...author’s supposed motive of disclosure seems to erode as the book contains no real medical information about plastic surgery. Furthermore, the mother does not discuss the rationale behind her breast augmentation. Salzhauer admitted in Newsweek that he tried to avoid that issue, calling it “a stretch for a six-year-old.” Yet the decision to have one’s stomach drained of fat seems no more sensible than stuffing silicone into your bosom. If Dr. Michael actually explained any of cosmetic surgery’s fine print and logistics, most...
...Such a depiction conveys the dangerous notion that plastic surgery is just as simple and routine as applying lipstick. This speaks to a culture that now uses Botox more than braces, in spite of new research from the Italian Institute of Neuroscience shows that the botulinum toxin used in facial injections can migrate into the brainstem and cause death...
...fact that many mothers are incapable of simply telling their children about their procedures is also indicative of a poisonous societal context. Today, plastic surgery is an established television genre: “Dr. 90210,” “Nip/Tuck,” and “The Swan” are memorable examples. Even while these popular programs champion the vocation of cosmetic surgeons, their actual patients are meant to sheepishly deny having work done...