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Economics at the Movies: Plastic Surgery - Need or Want?
26th August 2011
Just relax and I will make you twenty years younger! In this scene from the wonderful Brazil (1984 - directed by Terry Gilliam) Mrs Lowry (Katherine Helmond) undergoes a bit of plastic surgery to Sam’s (Jonathan Pryce) horror. When is plastic surgery a need and when it is a want? Why are people willing (and able) to pay huge sums for face lifts? Channel 4’s series Ugly Beauty here provides a window on some of the choices that people make about plastic surgery.
Brazil Clip
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.