Concern with body image and medical interventions related to physical beauty has greatly increased in the past few years. The purpose of this study is to investigate how medicine is dealing with the theme of beauty. The 2003/2004 editions of the periodicals Aesthetic Surgery Journal and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery were analyzed, in order to investigate the rationality buttressing their discourse....

Hetal Turakhia1, Abhishek Singh Nayyar2* and Shravan Chawla3 1Department of Prosthodontics and Crown and Bridge, Saraswati Dhanwantri Dental College and Hospital and Post-Graduate Research Institute, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India 2Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Saraswati Dhanwantari Dental College and Hospital and Post-Graduate Research Institute, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India 3Consul...

This paper examines the conflation of vital and aesthetic norms in the practice of Nazi medicine, and eugenic practices. It argues that biological holism, though it served as the vehicle of Nazi ideology historically, did so contingently. The anti-totalitarian thinking of biological holist Kurt Goldstein speaks against the irrevocable use of biological holism to promote Nazi ideologies.

1Chair of Dermatology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Immunodermatology, Faculty of Medicine in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 2Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 3Department of Hematology, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland 4Department...

Introduction and aim of the study: Botulinum toxin, produced by anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum family, is one most potent organic compounds known to man. Despite its toxicity, it has found widespread use in medicine. From applications aesthetic medicine, through treatment various disease entities, toxin become an extremely valuable tool hands doctors. The this study review latest rese...