Is There a Slippery Slope from Prosthetics to Cyborgs?

Is There a Slippery Slope from Prosthetics to Cyborgs?: "Plastic surgery, broadly defined, has a long history. The earliest records of going under the knife date back to 600 B.C. in India, where the punishment of nose amputation for adultery created a natural clientele for rhinoplasty. In ancient Rome, surgeons performed scar-removal operations on their patients’ backs, the marks of which suggested a personal history as a slave, who were whipped."