Fayemi Ademola K
Dev World Bioeth. 2018 Sep;18(3):250-257. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12180. Epub 2017 Nov 12.
The question of racial identity in the process and outcome of aesthetic surgery is gaining increasing attention in bioethical discourse. This paper attempts an ethical examination of the racial identity issues involved in aesthetic surgery. Dominant moral values in Western culture are explored in the evaluation of aesthetic surgery. The paper argues that African values are yet to receive the universal attention they arguably deserve especially in the rethinking of values underlying aesthetic surgery as racial transformation. Through a consideration of some moral-aesthetic values in the Yorùbá-African culture, this paper further re-evaluates the ethics of aesthetic surgery. The paper contends against the propagation of aesthetic surgery as a new form of bolstering racial divides and identity in the evolving cosmopolitan age. The position defended in the paper is that some values from Yorùbá-African culture are useful in the consideration of the ethics of aesthetic surgery and more importantly, in avoiding the racial identity bias embedded in aesthetic surgery. The paper concludes that if due consideration is perhaps given to some African moral-aesthetic values in the global aesthetic surgery industry, some of the evolving moral and racial complexities would be better mediated.
在生物伦理话语中，美容手术过程及结果中的种族身份问题正日益受到关注。本文试图对美容手术中涉及的种族身份问题进行伦理审视。在对美容手术的评估中，探讨了西方文化中的主导道德价值观。本文认为，非洲价值观尚未得到其理应得到的普遍关注，尤其是在重新思考作为种族转变的美容手术背后的价值观时。通过考量约鲁巴 - 非洲文化中的一些道德审美价值观，本文进一步重新评估美容手术的伦理。本文反对将美容手术宣扬为在不断演变的国际化时代强化种族分歧和身份认同的一种新形式。本文所捍卫的立场是，约鲁巴 - 非洲文化中的一些价值观有助于思考美容手术的伦理，更重要的是，有助于避免美容手术中所蕴含的种族身份偏见。本文得出结论，如果全球美容手术行业能适当考虑一些非洲道德审美价值观，一些不断演变的道德和种族复杂性问题将能得到更好的调解。
