PARAMETERS OF THE BEAUTY THERAPIST

Parameters Of The Beauty Therapist

Beauty Therapist

Introduction

In the 21st century, we can expect a revolution in the delivery of therapeutics. We can expect genetic medicines that will confer permanent solutions to chronic and acute ailments. How these genetic medicines will be delivered and controlled, without adverse side effects, are the pressing issues facing modern medicine. Beauty therapy theoretically represents the best form of treatment for some medical disorders because natural biological products rather than chemicals are employed for their natural function.

Delivery of the therapeutic is relatively constant at physiologically effective levels, rather than cycles of high and low concentrations that result from introduction of drugs or other therapeutics at periodic intervals. Conceptually, beauty therapy has the potential to provide a marked clinical and economic improvement over infused recombinant protein used in protein-replacement therapies. The essential goal of beauty therapy is to provide what all patients want, an improved quality of life. For these reasons beauty therapy will become the treatment of choice for disorders such as hemophilia1. Beauty therapy is applicable to both genetic and acquired diseases. In this chapter we review a new vector for non-viral beauty therapy, the Sleeping Beauty transposon system. This vector combines the advantages of viral vectors, directed integration of single copies of a therapeutic gene, with the advantages of non- viral vectors, the absence of protein factors that can elicit adverse reactions.

Philosophizing Beauty

Distinct parallels can be found between therapy and philosophy. With biofeedback, the purpose is to help an individual regulate negative neurological responses and transform them into positive ones. Similarly, with the application of the philosophical idea of beauty, an object that elicits a beauty response for the viewer can increase the functioning of the person's PNS and

decrease the functioning of the negative SNS. Beauty is comprised of:

Objectivity - An individual must go into each experience as if it is new and view it from all angles before casting positive or negative judgement.

Value - Beautiful objects/experiences contain both intrinsic value, meaning that there is an “imaginative experience” within the object, and inherent value, meaning not only that there is material value in beautiful things but also that “good art works are not dispensable” (Kieran, 2005).

Form - In each beautiful object there is an exhibition of “significant form” that adds tothe beauty of the object as a whole (Carroll, 2005).

Perception of the viewer - The emotion of the artist while making the object does not matter so much as does the emotion that the artist imbued in the object for the perceiver to see (Matravers, 2005).

Sensory perception - The combination of Hutcheson's externally sensible pleasure, internally rational pleasure, and internally sensible pleasure help determine beauty(Shelley, 2005).

Power in an original - There is nothing comparable to experiencing an object in its intended form.

Assessment of previous beauty experiences - As Richard Wollheim noted, “When we assign expressive value to a work of art, we invariably draw upon our knowledge of, or our beliefs about, the artistic process involved” ...