Silicone Spills

Breast Implants on Trial

Mary White Stewart (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

1998
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-96359-0 (ISBN)

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For 30 years, silicone gel breast implants were marketed to and implanted in at least one million women in the U.S. alone, damaging the health of hundreds of thousands. To many women seeking to improve their appearance, these virtually untested implants were promoted as a safe, lifelong answer to their needs. In actuality, however, they have been the cause of devastating, often irreversible health problems, making the implantation of these bags of gel one of the worst health care debacles in recent memory. Lawsuits against the manufacturers and the resulting trials have made prominent headlines and are a matter of public records, but until the publication of Silicone Spills: Breast Implants on Trial, there has never been a sophisticated and accurate presentation of the women who have had implants, why they have had them, and what has happened to them socially, medically, and legally as a result.

Silicone Spills portrays the breast implant business as a personal and social tragedy, as well as a complex legal and political controversy. Sociologist Mary White Stewart interviewed over 50 women at great length, examined questionnaires completed by 60 other women, observed pre-trial hearings and courtroom proceedings during the litigation against implant manufacturers, and read countless documents and press coverage about the cases. The fascinating and horrifying story she tells in this book, full of women's personal experiences, is a tale of corporate greed, of the commodification and medicalization of women's bodies, and of women's lack of personal and economic power. How can so many women have been damaged and failed by the very people and institutions that exist to protect them? Silicone Spills reveals that the complex answers to this question lie in our culture, in which women continue to be eager consumers of any procedures and products that seductively promise physical transformation into the desirable feminine ideal.

MARY WHITE STEWART is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D Program in Social Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno. She teaches and writes in the areas of gender, family violence, social psychology, and deviance. She was the jury consultant for the plaintiff in the Mahlum v. Dow Chemical case.

Preface
Introduction
Breast Wishes
The Path of Destruction: Implant Development, Data Distortion, and the Ineffectiveness of the FDA
Oh, You Beautiful Doll: Transforming the Self in American Culture
A Nip, A Tuck, A Lift: Medicalizing Healthy Women
Women's Bodies, Women's Worth
The Aftermath and the Stigma Path
Medical Records: Negotiated Reality
The Medical-Legal Controversy and Its Impact on Litigation
Breast Implants in the Larger Context of Violence Against Women
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.1998
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	567 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Gynäkologie / Geburtshilfe
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie ► Orthopädie
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Technik ► Medizintechnik
ISBN-10	0-275-96359-4 / 0275963594
ISBN-13	978-0-275-96359-0 / 9780275963590
Zustand	Neuware