Magazines show cosmetic surgery’s emotional “lift”
By Joene Hendry
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A survey of popular women’s magazines suggests articles tend to portray cosmetic surgery as an empowering option for improving women’s emotional health and physical appearance, despite the lack of scientific consensus that cosmetic surgery boosts emotional health.
Nearly half of 35 articles published in the 5 most popular women’s magazines in Canada contained information on the pre- and post-surgery emotional health of the cosmetic surgery recipient, researchers found.
Twenty-nine percent of the articles mentioned how women’s cosmetic surgery impacts men, Andrea Polonijo, a graduate student at Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, and colleagues report in the journal Women’s Health Issues.
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