Reproductive Technologies Used by Same Gender Couples

Badiu, Diana; Nastasel, Valentina

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-813764-2.00003-9

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“…In cosmetic surgery, the medical indication is not indispensable, and therefore, aesthetic procedures may be performed without an objective medical benefit for the patient based on a distinct ethical framework. For example, the principle of beneficence as satisfaction replaces beneficence as a duty to care, quality of life is substituted for the state of optimum physical health as the ultimate goal of medicine, and the risk-to-benefit analysis focuses heavily on non-medical benefits [3][4][5][6][7]. Furthermore, when obtaining informed consent for an aesthetic procedure, physicians have a duty not to interfere with the decision of their patients, especially concerning the recommendation to perform additional or more complex surgical interventions, but with caution and respect for the principle of non-maleficence.…”

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Physician-Patient Relationship in Current Cosmetic Surgery Demands More than Mere Respect for Patient Autonomy—Is It Time for the Anti-Paternalistic Model?

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Rusu

et al. 2022

Medicina

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The ethical framework of cosmetic surgery is distinct from the one associated with clinical medicine. This distinctiveness has led to significant difficulties in conceptualizing the physician-patient relationship (PPR), as most models have been developed specifically for the latter. The purpose of this article is to show that the PPR in cosmetic surgery can be better described through a distinct approach that we name the anti-paternalistic model of the PPR, and we will briefly present the differences between it and autonomy-based models. We will analyze the principle of non-interference, the variable degree of autonomy of both the patient and the physician within this relationship, the handling of the relevant information, the principle of beneficence as satisfaction, the difficulties regarding the informed consent, the algorithm allowing for the refusal of the procedure, and children-related issues. Based on this analysis, we will show that an anti-paternalistic model of the PPR is preferable to an autonomy-based one, as it allows for better clarification of the underlying ethical issues involved in cosmetic surgery.

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