Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (841 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275963594 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Sociologist Mary White Stewart interviewed over 50 women at great length, examined questionnaires completed by 60 other women, observed pre-trial hearings and courtroom proceedings during the litigation against implant manufacturers, and read countless documents and press coverage about the cases. In actuality, however, they have been the cause of devastating, often irreversible health problems, making the implantation of these bags of gel one of the worst health care debacles in recent memory. For 30 years, silicone gel breast implants were marketed to an
She was the jury consultant for the plaintiff in the Mahlum v. She teaches and writes in the areas of gender, family violence, social psychology, and deviance. MARY WHITE STEWART is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D Program in Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dow Che
Biased account that substitutes sympathy for thought The book gives short shrift to the many studies (Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Holland), etc.) that show that women with implants do not suffer from the diseases in question at a rate any higher than those without them. Instead she talks with the women who have these conditions (lupus, auto-immune, etc.) and allows her sympathy for them to cancel out the statistics. Although she cites some obscure newspaper articles on the issue, she nowhere cites the NY. Life changing book read a little too late After getting breast implants I was given this book. It changed my outlook on everything. I wish I could go back and get these things as small as they used to be. As well as bringing light to the subject of sillicone leakage it also aludes to the back pains associated with artificially large breast like mine.
Freud and other analysts were instrumental in establishing theories of aesthetic surgery and, Gilman argues, "provided a label for what it cured: inferiority." Several of Gilman's chapters are devoted to tracing this intersection between theories of race, aesthetics and psychology in the works of early psychoanalysts. (Praeger, $26.95 226p ISBN 0-275-96359-4)Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. Although his overarching argument is compelling, Gilman's work relies heavily on technical language. (Nov.) FYI: Also due in November is Silicone Spill: Breast Implants on Trial, by Univ. From Publishers Weekly Arguing that pseudoscientific theories of race from the 19th and early 20th centuries still impact our current standards of beauty and "unhapp