Beauty and Breast Implantation: How Candidate Selection Affects Autonomy and Informed Consent
Hypatia 10 (1):183 - 201 (1995)
| Abstract | Candidate evaluation for breast implantation presents a more important obstacle to the fulfillment of the normative requirements of informed consent than do the social roles of women or cultural norms governing female beauty. I argue that women's decisions to receive breast implants may indeed be informed, competently made, and substantially voluntary, but that the cultural construction of beauty may undermine women's autonomy by influencing the evaluation of surgical candidates and risk disclosure during informed consent. | |||||||||
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