
Plastic Surgery and the Bottomless Pit of Alienation
Marx Engels Institute
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The History of Classic Surgery in the United States
There was always some body modification, not necessarily for cosmetic purposes. Big developments took place in the sixties, and finally, when silico was invented. In the current era, classic surgery is still mostly used to treat burned victims or people who've had pieces of their body cut off because of cancer. But i think it's an adifent dialectic when these ts logies and procedures are now switching over to being mostly restorative,. am to having some dileterious effects, culturally speaking, and maybe physically speaking as well.
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