Can philosophical aesthetics be useful for plastic surgery? The subjective, objective and relational view of beauty as purpose from the Complexity Theory

Evidence-based medicine is grounded on a strong philosophical assumption, i.e. that reality is objective. However, in everyday clinical practice, aesthetic and plastic surgeons have to manage the combination of objective and subjective factors, with the risk of weakening the realist assumption. In this letter, we present a theoretical framework that could provide the basis for an evidence-based approach to aesthetic surgery. The framework is based on the general idea that complex reality, as medical diagnosis, emerges from isolated components that independently produce global effects on the whole.

Source: Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery - August 7, 2019 Category: Cosmetic Surgery Authors: Paolo Persichetti, Mauro Barone, Annalisa Cogliandro, N. Di Stefano, V. Tambone Tags: Correspondence and Communications Source Type: research