...Mary G. Winkler Kathy Davis. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. New York: Routledge, 1995. 211 pp. $16.95 paper. Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Books...

... the proportional increase in the cost of insurance. Compulsory payment for coverage of such services appears to require that people have more concern for others' health than for their own. The principle's application to cosmetic, extraordinary, and diagnostic or preventive services is illustrated. It is suggested...

..., were con- siderably happier than hers. Now, while it is certainly useful to compare the variances in their studies, Zimmerman implies that Davis is simply wrong. If all these women are happy with their cosmetic surgery, the study must be faulty. Yet Zimmerman’s and Davis’s interview subjects...

... appear to be in direct confrontation with fundamental principles of constitutional law, as evidenced by a close reading of the pertinent cases and provisions of the 1962 amendment to the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic I. Historical perspective A. Case IQw status. Although Laetrile has...

.... This makes for stimulating reading but poses problems for clinicians and policy makers who may be looking for clearer guidance about what stance to take with regard to Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, or new genetic interventions. What follows is an effort to distill...

.... This makes for stimulating reading but poses problems for clinicians and policy makers who may be looking for clearer guidance about what stance to take with regard to Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, or new genetic interventions. What follows is an effort to distill...

.... This makes for stimulating reading but poses problems for clinicians and policy makers who may be looking for clearer guidance about what stance to take with regard to Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, or new genetic interventions. What follows is an effort to distill...

.... This makes for stimulating reading but poses problems for clinicians and policy makers who may be looking for clearer guidance about what stance to take with regard to Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, or new genetic interventions. What follows is an effort to distill...

.... This makes for stimulating reading but poses problems for clinicians and policy makers who may be looking for clearer guidance about what stance to take with regard to Prozac, Viagra, cosmetic surgery, or new genetic interventions. What follows is an effort to distill...

... Wilensky, Harold L. Social Science and the Public Agenda: Reflections on the Relation of Knowledge to Policy in the United States and Abroad (report from the field), 5:1241–1265 Winkler, Mary G. Review of Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery (Kathy Davis), 1:245–248 Zuvekas...

... on flavors for any of the newly deemed products. The FDA did suggest that it planned to issue a future rule restricting flavors in cigars , but no such rule was suggested for ENDS. (Deeming Tobacco Product to Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as Amended by the Family Smoking Prevention...

... and Fiction (University of Illinois Press, 1995), she is currently completing a book- length study on cosmetic surgery, “The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery: Flesh Wounds.” E. Richard Brown is the director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and a professor in the UCLA School of Public Health. His...

...: Cultural Studies on Cosmetic Surgery. Kathy Davis. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 176 pp. $21.95 paper. Miscellaneous Suffering and Illness: Insights for Caregivers. Fay Carol Reed. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis, 2003. 159 pp. $24.95 paper. ...

... History (paperback ed Molly Caldwell Crosby. New York: Penguin Group, 2007. 368 pp. $15.00 paper. Medical Anthropology and Sociology Surgery Junkies: Wellness and Pathology in Cosmetic Culture. Victoria Pitts-Taylor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. 216 pp. $19.95 paper...

.... Congressional Record, 79th Congress, 1938, pp. 4841, 4913. For extensive discussion of the 1938 Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, see “Developments in the Law-The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act,” Harvard Law Review 67 (1954): 632-722. 5. OTA, Federal Policies, pp. 3-4. 6. H. Aaron and W...

... Technology: A Research Guide to the Legal Status of the Frozen Embryo. Timothy Coppo. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein. 40 pp. $39.50 cloth. Reshaping the Female Body: The Dilemma of Cosmetic Surgery. Kathy Davis. New York: Routledge, 1995. 219 pp. $16.95 cloth. Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives...

..., processes, and standards in the face of political pressure, derived in part from the agency arriving at the pandemic moment with a set of emergency authorization procedures already established. By 2007 the FDA had authority under section 564 of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize emergency use...

... of medical necessity. A case in point is cosmetic surgery, which is not an insured benefit “except where medically required’ ’ (p. 19). The deductive model, idealized as it is, is a plausible-sometimes, the only plausible-reconstruction of a number of specific decisions on insurance cov- erage...

... victim-blaming chorus. I understand that the women’s “accounts showed how cosmetic surgery can be an understandable step in the con- text of an individual woman’s experience of embodiment and of her pos- sibilities for taking action to alter her circumstances” (p. 163). Moreover, I accept...

... to aid in the establishment of compendia1 standards. 9. Exemptions provided in current law for some drug products based on their year of introduction in relation to amendments of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (so-called grandfather clauses) have impeded improvement in the quality...