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In the most general terms, this essay discusses the pros and cons of plastic surgery. However, in an attempt to provide significance, meaning, and focus to the question of why or why not to undertake surgery that is—for the purposes of this paper—by definition elective, this paper focuses upon a specific type of plastic surgery: post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. This topic’s importance is rooted in the fact that, every year in the United States, approximately eighty-thousand women undergo single or double mastectomies in connection with cancer diagnoses (Schattner, 2011, n.p.). So, at least some of these patients are faced with having to consider the—arguably, deeply significant and consequential—question of whether to undergo reconstruction. Thus