Medical Aesthetics Basics

Author: Zhao Meijuan
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "Fundamentals of Medical Aesthetics" can serve as a textbook for humanities education in ordinary universities of medicine and pharmacy, especially for medical aesthetics education. It can also be used as self-study material for medical workers and healthcare management personnel to enhance their aesthetic cultivation. The book is set against the background and premise of the new medical model. In the preface, it first establishes the temporal and logical coordinates for the issues discussed throughout the book. In terms of logical order, it takes the concept of "medical aesthetics" as the theoretical foundation of the entire book, explaining that medical aesthetics belongs both to the category of epistemology and methodology. It highlights the nature of medical aesthetic education, aiming to strengthen medical humanities education. In terms of theoretical arrangement, it weaves the basic principles of aesthetics regarding beauty, aesthetic appreciation, and the creation of beauty into the narrative. At the same time, it combines closely related issues in medical practice with aesthetics to provide theoretical and practical elaboration and research, such as the doctor-patient relationship, the creation of medical aesthetics, the clinical application of medical aesthetics, and the formal beauty of medicine. It also analyzes and summarizes the special laws of medical aesthetics. This is in line with the current development of the discipline of medical aesthetics in China.