Resumen de Medical Act, depersonalization and cosmetic surgery. The birth of the new right to beauty
The relationship between doctors and their patients becomes in- creasingly aseptic. The patient asks the doctor the full realization of his/her desires; the doctor tries to realize his/her request and contributes to the dehumanization of medicine.
The technical progress affects this process of desecration of medicine. In this context, it is relevant to the field of cosmetic sur- gery: beauty becomes a value.
Men and women are turning to surgery to conform to the rules dictated by the media. Cosmetic surgery is de-legitimized and rai- ses the need for new, unimaginable rights, such as the right to be beautiful.
Why does society hope for this new dangerous right? Is its in- sertion in our legal system perhaps theoretically plausible? How should the law intervene to put a stop to such dangerous re- quests?
