Breast Implants

Dow Corning was founded in 1943 as an equal joint venture of Dow Chemical Company and Corning Glass Works to produce silicones for commercial applications. In 1963, the Dow Corning engineers developed the first prototype of a breast implant by encapsulating a firm-density silicone gel within a silicone rubber bag, known as the Cronin implant, that was used initially in reconstructive surgery performed on breast cancer patients following mastectomies.
In December 1991, began the critics and the allegations of most of women, which claim that the implants leak silicone into their bodies causing pain, scarring, and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma. It could also interfere with detection of breast cancer by mammography.
But that wasn’t the only problem that Keith R. McKennon, its chief executive officer, had to manage working at Dow Corning and Dow Chemicals. He had to manage his firm’s response to charge that its Agent Orange had caused lingering he...