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In the early decades of the 20th century, most Americans considered cosmetic surgery to be just a few steps removed from quackery. Many observers saw the desire for cosmetic surgery as a mark of vanity, and physicians tended to believe that such surgery violated their ethical injunction to do no harm. Yet by the end of the century, cosmetic surgery had become a multibillion-dollar business, and it is now an accepted part of mainstream medicine, with its own professional journals and associations. Cosmetic-surgery clinics are sponsored by elite academic centers such as Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and the Mayo Clinic. Even . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Elliott is a professor in the Center for Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

The Case against Perfection: Ethics in an Age of Genetic Engineering, by Michael Sandel, was published by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May 2007.

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