The Silicone Breast Implant Controversy: What Women Need to Know - Hardcover

Like Nancy Bruning's Breast Implants: Everything You Need To Know ( LJ 9/15/92), this volume explains how breast implants can cause illness, what research has and has not been done, and the risks and benefits associated with their removal. Dr. Vasey, with the University of South Florida School of Medicine, is much more detailed in his analysis of the controversy over silicone and the culpability of manufacturers, plastic surgeons, and the Food and Drug Administration. He includes comments from women with silicone-associated disease, some of whom were totally disabled for years before being properly diagnosed. A fascinating look at a troubling subject, this will be of interest to scholars and ethicists as well as to the general reader.
- Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, Ohio
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