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“The numbers have only increased as the procedures get better, and cheaper; the cosmetic surgeons whose practices once piggybacked off the facial reconstruction of mutilated soldiers have given way to medspas where licensed aestheticians dole out injectables to women on their lunch breaks. A delicate euphemistic vocabulary has sprung up alongside these new procedures: lifting, plumping, smoothing, filling. It all sounds so gentle, less like medicine, more like self-care. And yet we are still no closer to disentangling what women want for their faces and bodies from what doctors, or husbands, or social pressures might tell them they’re supposed to want.”
― Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today – A Memorial Sloan Kettering MD's History of Healthcare and Agency