Cosmetical Skin Treatment and the Treatment Nature of Skin Cosmetic.
- Author:
Sang Don YI
1
Author Information
1. College of Law, Korea University, Seoul, Korea. sdyi@korea.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Dermatologist;
Cosmetician;
Medical skin treatment;
Cooperation;
Unlicensed medical practice;
Concept of medical treatment
- MeSH:
Delivery of Health Care;
Judgment;
Licensure;
Skin*
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
2004;42(2):131-137
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
The medical system is turning into a general health care system recently. The change in the system increases the cooperation between the physicians and the non-physicians in reality. So it is inappropriate to punish every cooperative work between the two for unlicensed medical practice control program anymore. In order to readjust the control over the unlicensed medical practice, critically dismantling and reconstructing the concept of medical treatment must be done. The three elements of the concept of medical treatment can be constructed socially in relation to disease. When this is done under social subsystems, the ideological functions of disease and medical treatment concepts can be explained. There are three aspects to the current unlicensed medical practice control program. There is a large gap between the legal judgment and the medical rationality. Moreover, the government unnecessarily has a full control over all dimensions of the medical treatment concept, and the license system only emphasizes the status, not the essence of the medical treatment itself. The dermatologists and cosmeticians' work must be divided but done cooperatively. A way to legislate this is to draw the cosmeticians into the area of medical skin treatment. Rather than solving the problem by giving cosmeticians another status, it is important for them to cooperate functionally with the dermatologists. The government should control the `cooperative division of work' between the two indirectly, so that the civil society can function on its own disciplinary mechanism.
