Tuesday, 11 October 2011

Surgery - Present

The most media prevalent forms of surgery today are key-hole and cosmetic. Key-hole surgery is the more practical, efficient method being devealoped worldwide for a large variety of procedures. Cosmetic surgery is often prelevant because it is exposing the insecureties of famous people, even those famous for their physical appearence.

The beauty myth created by the media in the first place has led to people drastically changing their bodies for the sake of vanity (often coupled with peer/media pressure). Cosmetic surgery has also pioneered skin grafting and techniques such as the gastric band which can save peoples lives and improve their quality of life.

Above: the difference between keyhole surgery and traditional open surgery.
Image: Nath, R. (2008). Gallbladder removal. Available: http://www.butler.org/body.cfm?id=125&chunkiid=42694. Last accessed 11/10/2011.



Above: Cosmetic surgery before and after. The website for I sourced this image from is disturbingly called 'beautiful beings'.
 Image:  Olivia, B. (2011). Cosmetic Surgery and Gastric Band Surgery Arranged By Beautiful Beings. Available: http://www.beautifulbeings.co.uk/. Last accessed 11th Oct 2011. 

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4 comments:

  1. Thomas Moutlon18 October 2011 at 06:28

    Very good subjects and the right amount of depth, i didnt know we were supposed to do the past and horizons for our post yet though. Keep it up

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  2. David Howell18 October 2011 at 07:32

    Very good so far. I'd try to look more at why people have surgery and different types.

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  3. Bev Bush24 October 2011 at 12:52

    You need to have separate post sections for each of your time elements for each topic, so
    present-surgery, past-surgery, horizon-surgery and the same structure for your food topic.
    Please don't have all the sections rolled into one post as it makes it very hard to use the assessment criteria which follows the requirements of the brief without these categories, it's also rather confusing.

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  4. Carleen Houbart31 October 2011 at 06:14

    There is very little work here at this point and with such a rich topic there whould be a lot more.

    You could look at advertisements today for plastic surgery - I see them in the dentist every time I go and I bet they are in most local newspapers. Eye surgery is another one.

    The rise is tv programme around the subject of surgery:
    surgery gone wrong,
    Surgery to make you look more beautiful,

    Are there University courses/sham online degrees etc.

    Magazines that advocate plastic surgery, or for practitioners.

    Academic journals on the subject.

    Tools or clothing for surgery (post surgery as well)

    What about NHS posters??

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MARKS-AND-SPENCER-POST-SURGERY-WHITE-BRA-SIZE-36E-/120799143120?pt=UK_Women_s_Lingerie&hash=item1c2030a4d0

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Optimax-500-Discount-off-Laser-Eye-Treatment-Surgery-/260883457071?pt=UK_Health_Beauty_VisionGlasses_Lenses_SM&hash=item3cbddda42f

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RARE-VICTORIAN-SHIELD-DOSED-SURGERY-LABELS-/320784902824?pt=UK_Antiques_Science_RL&hash=item4ab0452aa8

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OLD-COMMUNIST-CHINESE-PAINTING-MINI-PRINT-MEDICAL-SURGERY-USING-ACUPUNTURE-/370554392708?pt=UK_Antiques_Asian_Oriental_Antiques_ET&hash=item5646c35084

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastic-Surgery-Super-Gel-Grams/dp/B004OKVWW2/ref=sr_1_11?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1320066758&sr=1-11

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ravensburger-British-Doctors-Surgery-Puzzle/dp/B004FPYKMA/ref=sr_1_1?s=kids&ie=UTF8&qid=1320066758&sr=1-1

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