Plastic Surgery and the Cultural and Time-Varying Differences of Physical Beauty / 中国医学伦理学

ABSTRACT

Physical beauty does not only equal to the shape of body fit for the formal principles of aesthetics, but also the embodiment of culture, and its essence lies in body which embodies wisdom. So plastic surgery does not equal to shape body according to the formal principles of aesthetics, it has to be directed by somaesthetics. Prudence in dealing with the cultural and time-varying differences of physical beauty embodies and even creates the culture of physical beauty.