The Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures

This book examines the legal, ethical and regulatory debates surrounding the rise of the cosmetic procedures industry.

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Melanie Latham, Reader in Law, Manchester Metropolitan University. Jean V. McHale, Professor of Health Care Law, University of Birmingham.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 Cosmetic Procedures: Histories, Risks and Responses

1. Introduction

2. Historical Background to Cosmetic Procedures and their Regulation

3. Cosmetic Procedures: Scandals, Risks and Responses.

4. Conclusions and Framework of the book Chapter 2: Cosmetic Procedures: Ethical Principles and Dilemmas

1. Introduction

2. Personal choice, autonomy and feminist ethics The culture of cosmetic procedures

   A matter of agency

3. Cosmetic Procedures and a matter of Beneficence Cosmetic Procedures- a question of "do no harm"

   Harms and discrimination

   Harms: children and adults lacking mental capacity

4. Cosmetic Procedures: a question of Justice?
5. Conclusions Chapter 3: Theories and Models for Future Regulation

1. Introduction

2. Self-Regulation and Compliance mechanisms

3. The rise of agencies

4. Regulation responsive to risk

5. Lessons from Current Regulatory Models from the UK Health sector. Regulatory oversight of healthcare providers: The Care Quality Commission

Regulatory oversight of health professional bodies: The Professional Standards Authority.

Regulatory bodies for a specific area of healthcare activity: Case study of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority and the Human Tissue Authority

Conclusions

Chapter 4: Cosmetic Procedures and the Law: Autonomy and Legality

1. Introduction

2. Consent to Involvement in Cosmetic Procedures and the Criminal Law Consent and the medical exception

   Prosecuting "Cosmetic" procedures outside "the medical exception"- the case of R v BM

   The Criminal Law and Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery

   The reality of consent to surgery and the criminal law: the case of Ian Paterson

3. Informed Consent: Cosmetic Procedures and the Law of Tort

4. Capacity, Adults and children and consent to cosmetic procedures
5. Conclusions Chapter 5: Cosmetic Procedures, Law Safety, Products and People

1. Introduction
2. Liability of Practitioners for Harm caused to the Consumer Liability in Contract

Liability in Negligence

Accountability and the "fly in- fly out" practitioner

The effectiveness of litigation as a remedy and the use of arbitration

Liability in Criminal Law for gross negligence manslaughter

1. Safety of products used in cosmetic procedures Regulating Product Safety

Liability for Defective Products

1. Safety of premises

2. Professional Regulation of Providers of Cosmetic Procedures Role of the General Medical Council in providing guidance on Cosmetic Procedures.

Role of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Movement to more comprehensive oversight and regulation

European Standards for Aesthetic Surgery Services

The Joint Council for Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures Establishment and Scope

Scotland and the Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures and Practitioners.

Advertising, Marketing and Social Media

1. Conclusions Chapter 6: Comparative Dilemmas from the Global Cosmetic Procedure Market

I. Introduction

II. Cosmetic Procedures, Regulation and Safety in the US

Training of Cosmetic Practitioners in the US

US regulation of cosmetic surgery: the example of California

US regulation of non-invasive cosmetic procedures: the example of Florida

1. Cosmetic Procedures and Regulation in Brazil

   The influence of culture on cosmetic treatments in Brazil

   Regulation of cosmetic procedures in Brazil

   Cosmetic surgeons and training in Brazil

   IV. Cosmetic Procedures and Regulation in France

   Cosmetic surgery regulation in France the Kouchner law of 2002

   The "devis" and informed consent

   Minors and cosmetic procedures

   Advertising and publicity for cosmetic surgery

   Licences for cosmetic surgery

   Qualifications and training

   Bringing proceedings against practitioners

   Regulation of non-invasive cosmetic procedures

   Regulatory bodies and cosmetic procedures

2. Conclusions Chapter 7: Conclusions: Regulating the Cosmetic Procedure Industry, a Question of Law, Ethics and Safety.

I. Introduction

II. Regulating Cosmetic Procedures a New Legal Framework

Future Regulatory options

Regulation of practitioners undertaking cosmetic procedures by a new regulatory body

Consent

Regulation of procedures undertaken on minors and adults lacking mental capacity.

Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery

Advertising, Print, Broadcast and Social Media

1. Conclusions, Cosmetic Procedures Regulation and the Global Market Bibliography