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How to Regulate a Practice: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery

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How should a practice, subservient to a public good, be regulated in order to guarantee fair access without encouraging improper claims? In the first place, a clear understanding of the goal of the practice is indispensable for knowing what criteria the regulation must contain. As to the purely formal aspect, the regulation of any practice must include both general rules and particular instances. Finally, to resolve conflicts, committees in which different kinds of expertise are represented should be installed. These three theses are illustrated by the Dutch regulation for cosmetic surgery.

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  1. Department of Medical Ethics, FGG, Erasmus University, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Henri Wijsbek

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Wijsbek, H. How to Regulate a Practice: The Case of Cosmetic Surgery. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 4, 59–74 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011476126070

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