Informative Essay On Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery is defined as a surgical procedure. It involves repair of deformities and skin defects, body-part reconstruction, or the removal of skin tumors (Shauf). “Technological advances and changing cultural mores have continually broadened the scope of plastic surgery such that it is now primarily equated with cosmetic or aesthetic surgery” (Shauf). The oldest branch of Medicine is considered to be Surgery, but many centuries had passed before the method was available. There are thousands of mutilating facial injuries due to the war, this also is a leading use for Plastic Surgery (Shauf). In the Nineteen-sixties the shift began, going from reconstructive surgery to plastic and cosmetic surgery (Shauf). Surgery is considered the oldest branch of medicine, although, before anesthesia could be undertaken, knowledge of the body had to be understood first (Shauf). The Indians have a text that goes, in detail, into the process of surgery. Even though it is not known if the procedures actually happened or not. In nineteen-seventy-three there are accounts recorded in Poona of Plastic Surgery (Shauf). There were British physicians who were able to watch the procedures be done, they described the “Hindu Method” as superior (Shauf). The procedure of Plastic Surgery dates back, and the procedure is believed to have occurred centuries before it was known although there is no documentation. With there being a leading cause for plastic surgery due to the thousands of mutilating facial injuries from the war, most medical historians classify World War One as the modern plastic surgeries beginning (Shauf). Harold Gillies, a physician, had approximately two-thousand cases at his unit in South England of facial trauma (Shauf).There were three military hospitals designated to preform plastic surgery for wounded soldiers (Shauf). “By [nineteen-forty-one] the American Board of Plastic Surgery had been certified as a primarily specialty board by the American Medical Association” (Shauf). Plastic surgery has developed over time, and helped numerous people along the way. Evolving beauty attitudes developed in the nineteen-sixties and this began to change Plastic Surgery (Shauf). …show more content…
The surgery changed from reconstructive surgery to cosmetic and plastic surgery (Shauf). The early twenty-first century was spent in a recession, even in that time era the rate for plastic surgery was still up (Shauf). People spent less on housing, food, entertainment, and clothing, while the rates for liposuction, eye lid surgery, butt lifts, and breast augmentation increased (Shauf). Even though the American people spent less on food, clothes, and entertainment they still seemed to have money for beauty enhancements. The article on Plastic surgery that was read was organized well, in terms of a point by point system. In the first paragraph, the author states the main points of the article and also in the middle of the first paragraph they state the thesis. The second through the third paragraph states the reasoning for the first main point. The fourth paragraph is reasoning for the second main point. Then the fifth through the ninth paragraph are all about the third main point. The article stayed focused throughout the paper and has smooth transitions between the paragraphs. Such as the transition used in the fourth …show more content…
Her thesis made sense and went along with the whole paper and all of the main points. The facts that she includes are relevant to the article along with staying in focus and on topic. She made good use with pathos, in the sense where she uses the good that plastic surgery does for the soldiers with injuries when they come home. It appeals to the general public’s emotions to how they are thankful for all the freedom we receive due to them fighting. It brings the readers emotional state to feel good about what plastic surgery is doing. And lastly she made good use of the ethos, she gave a bibliography at the end of her article. That was her letting the reader know that she got her information from several different sources and it wasn’t all her own thoughts. She maintains a reasonable position as well throughout the paper, as in she never over qualified herself on a topic. Shauf didn’t qualify herself to talk about the topic in a detailed medical sense because she wasn’t qualified nor did she have enough knowledge on the