one important quote from the beauty myth

Health Care Complicity is an important idea.

“it would benefit physicians to look upon ugliness not as a cosmetic issue but a disease.”

Wolf proves that even the health care industry—which should by all accounts know better—is complicity in the myth as part of the machinery that makes it work. A quote loaded with metaphor from Dr. Arthur K. Balin, president of the American Aging Association, almost defies belief because Balin is actually being completely literal in his sincerity.