Cosmetic Surgery: Between Medical Ethics and ‘Posthumanism’

September 2, 2014

(Daily News Egypt) – Four years after 27-year-old American TV personality and singer Heidi Montag underwent 10 cosmetic procedures in one day, independent American researcher Brett Lunceford uses Montag to examine “the ethics of seeking body perfection”. His examination was recently published in a book “Global Issues and Ethical Considerations in Human Enhancement Technologies”. Lunceford discusses cosmetic surgery from the perspective of “posthumanism”, which suggests that body defects can be overcome by technology, in an “increasingly visual society” where beauty “may seem only skin deep”.