This disturbs me quite a lot. (Because the whole site is done in Flash, I can't give you a direct link to the page that disturbs me most. Try the photo gallery -> breast enlargement.)
The "good doctor" came to my attention through his ad in the latest issue (#88) of Black+White magazine (more flash but you should find it pretty easily.) In keeping witht the style of the magazine, the photos in his ad are stunningly beautiful. That is, until I realised that they were all photos of his patients.
I am concerned about the medical ethics of using photos of his patients to advertise his practice. However, that's not what concerns me most.
My deepest concern centres on the doctor's belief that his patients are like clay in his hands and his work is art. I guess this is the logical outcome of the way that breast enhancements is generally viewed but I find it sickening. Surely there is a place for cosmetic surgery and we have allowed a blurring of lines between medical expediancy and pleasure. But to blatantly advertise his own work as art surely means the doctor has given up medicine.
My final discomfort however rests in my own reaction. When I view the comparisons as a man - as this man - I mostly find the "before" images to be at least as attractive as the "after' ones. However, if I try to imagine myself fully in the body of the women subjects, I would prefer the 'enhanced' version of myself. There is something about the way breasts are viewed by both men and women that regards more as more valuable and more powerful. I'm not exactly sure where that reaction comes from.
