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The Conflict of Collective Vanity and Individual Autonomy

The Conflict of Collective Vanity and Individual Autonomy. Cannon. Challenges to the Role of Medicine and the Relationships Involved. According to some bioethicists, there are aspects of cosmetic surgery that are at odds with the “internal morality of medicine”.

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The Conflict of Collective Vanity and Individual Autonomy

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  1. The Conflict of Collective Vanity and Individual Autonomy Cannon

  2. Challenges to the Role of Medicine and the Relationships Involved • According to some bioethicists, there are aspects of cosmetic surgery that are at odds with the “internal morality of medicine”

  3. Challenges to the Role of Medicine and the Relationships Involved • According to the Hasting’s Report: • Prevention of disease and injury • Promotion and maintenance of health • Relief of pain and suffering due to a malady • The care and cure of those with maladies (including palliative care) • The avoidance of a premature death and the pursuit of a peaceful death

  4. Challenges to the Role of Medicine and the Relationships Involved • Advertisements • http://www.doctordirectonline.com/c-38-print-ads.aspx

  5. Ties to Elitism • Nearly all cosmetic surgery reinforces an unrealistic image that has racist, sexist, and classist undertones. • http://www.cosmeticplasticsurgerystatistics.com/statistics.html#2008-HIGHLIGHTS

  6. Ties to Elitism • Nearly all cosmetic surgery reinforces an unrealistic image that has racist, sexist, and classist undertones. • Racism: Outline of the History of Humanity (1798) German Philosopher Christoph Meiners correlated physical beauty with intelligence.

  7. Ties to Elitism • Nearly all cosmetic surgery reinforces an unrealistic image that has racist, sexist, and classist undertones (Gabourey Sidibe)

  8. Cosmetic Surgery is morally worrisome • Support of such images breeds discontent, vanity, perfectionism….both on the level of the collective and the individual. • ANNE E. BECKER, PhD: Eating behaviours and attitudes following prolonged exposure to television among ethnic Fijian adolescent girls • http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/180/6/509

  9. Cosmetic Surgery is morally worrisome • Support of such images breeds discontent, vanity, perfectionism….both on the level of the collective and the individual. • Cosmetic surgery is getting more, not less popular. • http://www.cosmeticplasticsurgerystatistics.com/statistics.html#2008-GRAPHS

  10. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Should cosmetic surgery be seen as just another (potentially insignificant choice) of an autonomous person?

  11. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Should cosmetic surgery be seen as just another (potentially insignificant choice) of an autonomous person? • Yes and No. The choices are restricted. • http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x3006.xml

  12. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Should cosmetic surgery be seen as just another (potentially insignificant choice) of an autonomous person? • Yes and No. The choices are restricted. • http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x3006.xml • Hard and Soft Paternalism

  13. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Should cosmetic surgery be seen as just another (potentially insignificant choice) of an autonomous person? • Yes and No. The choices are restricted. • http://www.law.seattleu.edu/x3006.xml • Hard and Soft Paternalism • Are there times that desire for cs is not insignificant?

  14. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Sometimes desire for cs is not insignificant • Apotemnophilia • Gender Identity Disorder • Other

  15. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Summary • There is evidence that cosmetic surgery is at odds with the function and goals of medicine

  16. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Summary • There is evidence that cosmetic surgery is at odds with the function and goals of medicine • A wide spread valuing of the practice of cs harms members of the collective.

  17. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Summary • There is evidence that cosmetic surgery is at odds with the function and goals of medicine • A wide spread valuing of the practice of cs harms members of the collective. • Those who are actually suffering often have little access to the assistance cs can supply.

  18. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Summary • There is evidence that cosmetic surgery is at odds with the function and goals of medicine • A wide spread valuing of the practice of cs harms members of the collective. • Those who are actually suffering often have little access to the assistance cs can supply. • Even if possible, eliminating cs may be paternalistic

  19. Moral Dilemma: Individual Autonomy and Collective Valuing • Conclusion • Avoid Paternalism • Reduce Harm

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