As a result, the history of plastic surgery is primarily a story about male doctors operating on female patients. But perhaps more importantly, it’s a story about men with the power to make women beautiful, and the authority to decide what “beautiful” looked like. The development of new and improved plastic surgical techniques often finds advancements driven by the personal taste of a male doctor, not by what women wanted themselves, and female patients treated more like guinea pigs than consumers driving demand. For a given procedure to be developed, refined, and made ubiquitous has always
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