As the field evolved, surgeons began to divide into two camps: those who did reconstructive surgeries on damaged faces and bodies, and those who performed cosmetic procedures on otherwise healthy people. And here, the line between medical and moral authority began to blur. Doctors, long valued for their expertise in matters of health and healing, were now the arbiters of aesthetics, too. Beauty, as always, was in the eye of the beholder—but now, the beholder was holding a scalpel.
