Dow Corning Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis of Breast Implants:the Dow Corning Scandal.

Dow Corning Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 11 pages of analysis of Breast Implants:the Dow Corning Scandal.
This section contains 2,975 words
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Breast Implants:the Dow Corning Scandal

Summary: Dow Corning committed a serious criminal and ethical crime in their manufacture and sale of silicone breast implants. For more than thirty years they kept potentially damaging scientific studies from the public, altered the design of their product to make it more marketable but also more unsafe, and attempted various evasive tactics when the public started to discover that silicone breast implants were unsafe.
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The subject of my paper will be an investigation into the manufacture of silicone breast implants by Dow Corning and what caused this scandal to become corporate crime. This subject is of special interest to me because my mother has been in litigation with Dow Corning since the late 1980's. I will use several research methods for development of this research paper. They will include researching books and the use of the internet. I believe that my findings will show that for more than thirty years Dow Corning manufactured and distributed an unsafe product with the knowledge that its recipients were being put in danger. Dow Corning then tried various evasive measures to escape from their liability. This is still a current problem with many women still in litigation with Dow Corning today.

Breast Implants:

The Dow Corning Scandal

Silicone breast implants to many women were originally...

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