Author:

• Miguel Ângelo Montagner - Miguel Ângelo Montagner - Campinas, SP - Bolsista CNPQ FUNCAP - <montagner@hotmail.com>

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Abstract:

The body, in the occidental culture was for many centuries feared and devaluated; today, differently, it is super valued and became a precious good, for this reason well-taken care of and he is shaped, therefore it is attributed to the successes and the virtues of the individual contemporary. In the search of an ideal body, many people look for aesthetic surgeries as solution of their problems and improvement of the self-esteem. This article aims understand the relation of the aesthetic surgery with the Public Health and the promotion of the health. We carry through a qualitative study, using the method of the case study, with the objective to understand the underlying beliefs, attitudes, perceptions and cultural processes to the narratives of the college’s students submitted to the aesthetic surgery and of the plastic surgeons. The results demonstrate that the body must be understood as something more complex the one that the physical and visible body, therefore many that search the aesthetic surgery continue unsatisfied, since its problems attributed to the physicist are also of the soul. We conclude that the aesthetic beauty is becoming a medical subject and that the aesthetic surgery is a question of public health, therefore the results depend on the motivations and expectations of who search this procedure.
Keywords: body; aesthetic surgery

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