title: Emily's scars. Surgical shapings, technoluxe, and bioethics.
abstract: Increasingly, medicine is used to remodel, revise, and revamp as much as to heal and mend. It is tempting to say that people make merely personal choices about these new uses. But such choices have implications for everybody, and they ought to be made cautiously, slowly, and in a way that opens them to discussion.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary.
authors.forename: Arthur W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D001828:Body Image; D002648:Child; D019465:Craniofacial Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development / Q000601:surgery*; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000601:surgery*; D004954:Esthetics; D006801:Humans; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000941:ethics*; D019564:Unnecessary Procedures / Q000941:ethics