Reflecting on Cosmetic Surgery

Northrop, J

doi:10.4324/9780203121511

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“…The earliest cosmetic surgery was performed to reconstruct features of physical appearance, and more recently, it has emerged as a major grooming industry. Its significant role in this age has drawn much attention and concerns regarding the determining of the parameters of physical appearance, especially the appearance of women (51). This study is based on only three case studies, and as such, the limitation of information may be unable to reflect the entire picture.…”

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Healing Childhood Psychological Trauma and Improving Body Image Through Cosmetic Surgery

2019

Front. Psychiatry

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Cosmetic surgery is an interdisciplinary field involving cosmetics and medicine that stems from the early modern obsession with disfigurement. The “correcting” of facial features and body parts was very likely because beauty was at the heart of most reconstructive desires. Cosmetic surgery patients typically experience improvements in body image, and some are very satisfied with the impact of cosmetic surgery in changing their behaviors and improving self-esteem. The doctrine of mind–body connection supports the concept of healing the heart through the body. However, some people feel disgraced after revealing their experiences of cosmetic surgery. It is known that people who experience childhood psychological trauma, such as abuse and school bullying, may opt for cosmetic surgery later in life. The present study aimed to explore the relationship between childhood psychological trauma, cosmetic surgery, and body image. Three female adults who had undergone different types of cosmetic surgery completed the Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale (ACSS), the Fear of Negative Appearance Evaluation Scale (FNAES), and the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire (MBSRQ), followed by semistructured face-to-face interviews. According to the results, 1) undergoing cosmetic surgery can enhance self-confidence, reduce body dissatisfaction, resolve inner conflicts, and somewhat relieve psychological distress; 2) self-esteem and body image obtained from cosmetic surgery can resolve the distressing aftereffects of childhood trauma that occur later in life; and 3) the perceived sense of beauty achieved from cosmetic surgery contributes to a certain degree of self-confidence in the short term and promotes appearance-enhancing behaviors while increasing the distress of others discovering their cosmetic surgery experiences. The implications of this study are that undergoing cosmetic surgery can have healing effects on childhood trauma; however, there are certain drawbacks that can occur, such as distress and an insatiable desire for or an “addiction” to surgery.

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Healing Childhood Psychological Trauma and Improving Body Image Through Cosmetic Surgery

2019

Front. Psychiatry

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“…As Gehert Piers notes, ‘behind the feeling of shame stands [the] fear of abandonment, the death by emotional starvation’. 15 16 Northrop 17 echoes this claim contending that in cases of shame and stigma, ‘social death and actual death are imminently convergent’. The threat of shame can feel worse than the threat of physical pain or even the risk of death.…”

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Health-related shame: an affective determinant of health?

2017

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Despite shame being recognised as a powerful force in the clinical encounter, it is underacknowledged, under-researched and undertheorised in the contexts of health and medicine. In this paper we make two claims. The first is that emotional or affective states, in particular shame, can have a significant impact on health, illness and health-related behaviours. We outline four possible processes through which this might occur: (1) acute shame avoidance behaviour; (2) chronic shame health-related behaviours; (3) stigma and social status threat and (4) biological mechanisms. Second, we postulate that shame's influence is so insidious, pervasive and pernicious, and so critical to clinical and political discourse around health, that it is imperative that its vital role in health, health-related behaviours and illness be recognised and assimilated into medical, social and political consciousness and practice. In essence, we argue that its impact is sufficiently powerful for it to be considered an affective determinant of health, and provide three justifications for this. We conclude with a proposal for a research agenda that aims to extend the state of knowledge of health-related shame.

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“…Косметическая хирургия, особенно процедуры для лица, -это тема, которая заслуживает особого обсуждения в антропологической литературе из-за ее связи с субъективностью стыда и социальным «я» [Northrop 2012;Tausig 2012]. Феминистская литература склонна обсуждать эту тему в радикально поляризованных взглядах.…”

Section: женская экономика русского кварталаunclassified

“…Одна точка зрения, которая связывает это с гендерным неравенством и эксплуатацией женских тел как жертв патриархата, лучше всего сформулирована Кэтрин Поли Морган в ее книге «Женщины и нож: косметическая хирургия и колонизация женских тел» ], где она утверждает что решение женщины «лечь под нож» продиктовано желанием казаться молодой и красивой, нравиться мужчинам. Другая точка зрения предполагает, что косметическая хирургия может показаться освобождающей и расширяющей возможности женщин (напр., [Davis 1995;Northrop 2012]), и что она не столько связана с красотой, сколько с идентич-ностью. Однако каждый отдельный случай может быть комбинацией всех этих видений, как показали интервью с женщинами -приграничными торговцами.…”

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“…В данной статье рассматривается тема выездного медицинского и оздоровительного туризма из России в Китай. Трансграничный медицинский туризм между Китаем и Россией еще не исследовался, несмотря на рост академического интереса к области медицинского и оздоровительного туризма из-за его растущего экономического значения Northrop 2012]. Целью данной работы является актуализация проблемы трансграничной медицинской миграции, изучение этнографии трансграничной мобильности людей между Россией и Китаем.…”

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