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aesthetic surgery  

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  • From the close of the nineteenth century to the present, aesthetic surgery has come to be ever more widely practiced. It has also become the focus of ongoing criticism of what limits society and the individual can or should set, with respect to control over our own bodies and the bodies of others. [Source: Encyclopedia of Disability; Aesthetic Surgery]

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