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Economics at the Movies: Plastic Surgery - Need or Want?

Geoff Riley

26th August 2011

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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

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty 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 and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

@tutor2uGeoff

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