This "video tape that can change your life" is touted as being an objective discussion of breast-implant issues. However, one-third of the tape's running time features a plastic surgeon who cheers the wonders of surgery and silicone implants while pointing out the negatives of the FDA-approved saline implants. Despite the subtitle, there is very little "woman to woman" interaction; all the doctors are white males lecturing at the viewer, though the beginning and end of the tape does feature lovely young women talking about how great their lives are now that they have big breasts. The "objective" part in the middle consists of oncologists explaining how implants could interfere with mammography (but then viewers are told that implants surgically inserted beneath pectoral muscles sometimes make mammography easier), and interviews with two middle aged women who became seriously ill due to their silicone implants. However, their testimony is then completely undermined by another plastic surgeon's dismissive attitude. "It turns out that there may be a variety of things that cause auto-immune diseases in people. Some people die from taking two aspirin," he snips. Well, that's hardly a disinterested opinion. The video's planned 100,000 copy release should only be peddled as sales literature for plastic surgeons, not as objective material for the wider market. Not recommended. (R. Reagan)
Breast Enlargement: Woman To Woman, What Are My Choices Now?
(1995) 70 min. $19.95. University Film Group. PPR. Color cover. Vol. 11, Issue 2
Breast Enlargement: Woman To Woman, What Are My Choices Now?
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