It is the Cooperation, Stupid!
The rise of aesthetics in medicine has resulted from society's acknowledgement of the importance of physical beauty. This has led to an emerging conflict between allied specialties. The author introduces the concept of "Aesthetic Socialism" according to which everyone should have an opportunity to enhance or restore the beauty where it is missing or when it is lost due to disease, trauma or ageing. However, there are multiple aspects of aesthetics, which can not be addressed by a single specialty, therefore author recommends interdisciplinary cooperation rather than conflict to achieve aesthetic socialism.
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Somesh
S
Gupta
Aesthetics; beauty; interdisciplinary cooperation