preview

Breast Implants Ethical Essay

Good Essays
Open Document

Most Women today get breast implants to feel better about their physical appearance because society is making harder for them to live up to the expectation of what a woman should look like. According to the American society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, in today’s society 316,848 surgeries in 2011 involved women getting breast implants (Jugenburg). Today more women are getting breast implants for many reason now such as: to look better naked, to look better in clothes, to feel better about themselves, to more confident, to feel less self-conscious, and to have larger breast. The human enhancement of breast augmentation, based on Dalai Lama’s principles of ethics, is ethical because of women’s expectation of happiness to have physical appearance that will make they happy and the motivation that woman to get breast implants. Breast augmentation is unethical because of intent woman have for wanting …show more content…

This type of operation was done to increase the size, enhance the feeling, and to modify the shape of a women’s breast (Stone). The earliest breast implant was done by surgeon Vincenz Czerny in 1895, when he had removed a tumor from the breast and had fixed its asymmetry with the patient’s adipose tissue (Stone). A huge revolution occurred for breast implants after WWII, when Japanese prostitutes tried to lure American servicemen as they got silicone injected in their breasts (Stone). Breast implants is one procedure that can be very painful since it requires pain medication. This type of surgery is every expensive and you are looking at paying more than $5,000 for breast implants. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons collects information each year on plastic surgery procedures performed by its members and the current estimation of women who have had breast implants is approximately more than 6 million

Get Access