Addicted to the Knife

  In "The Business of Being Born" it is brought up how our society has a sort of obsession with surgeries. Women in New York will schedule their C-sections and then have a tummy tuck immediately after. Women are given epidurals, which slow down labor, so they need a drug to speed up labor, which makes the epidural wear off so they need more of that, and eventually they have to go in for a c-section because all the drugs ruin their natural labor. It also brings up the point of 18 year olds going in to get plastic surgery procedures done. Our society is obsessed with drugs, making the pain go away, doing things as fast possible.
  This whole mentality reminds me of a favorite movie of mine "REPO! The Genetic Opera". The main plot is that a disease spreads the world and starts causing organ failure as an epidemic. Geneco is able to devise a way to create organs and then transplant them into people. People are able to then upgrade their "second class heredity" and surgeries become something of a fashion statement. There is an obsession with drugs and changing who you are from the inside out. It makes me think of the women who use drugs to alter their labor and birth. I feel like while maybe the whole movie isn't completely plausible, the future with an obsession with drugs and surgery is already upon us. It scares me because soon there will be a surgery for everything and you will be pushed into things you don't really need to "fix" your body. I want no part in it.