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Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality / edited by Erik Parens.
Holman Biotech Commons RD137 .S846 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Surgery--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Children.
- Abnormalities, Human--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Abnormalities, Human.
- Surgery, Plastic--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Surgery, Plastic.
- Children--Surgery--Decision making.
- Decision making in children.
- Plastic Surgery Procedures--ethics.
- Achondroplasia--surgery.
- Biomedical Technology--ethics.
- Child.
- Cleft Palate--surgery.
- Genitalia--abnormalities.
- Social Perception.
- Children--Surgery.
- Decision making.
- Medical Subjects:
- Plastic Surgery Procedures--ethics.
- Achondroplasia--surgery.
- Biomedical Technology--ethics.
- Child.
- Cleft Palate--surgery.
- Genitalia--abnormalities.
- Social Perception.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Contents:
- Twisted lies: my journey in an imperfect body / Sherri G. Morris
- Do I make you uncomfortable? Reflections on using surgery to reduce the distress of others / Cassandra Aspinall
- My shoe size stayed the same: maintaining a positive sense of identity with achondroplasia and limb-lengthening surgeries / Emily Sullivan Sanford
- The seduction of the surgical fix / Lisa Abelow Hedley
- Concepts of technology and their role in moral reflection / James C. Edwards
- Emily's scars: surgical shapings, technoluxe, and bioethics / Arthur W. Frank
- Thoughts on the desire for normality / Eva Feder Kittay
- To cut or not to cut? A surgeon's perspective on surgically shaping children / Jeffrey L. Marsh
- What's special about the surgical context? / Wendy E. Mouradian
- Are we helping children? Outcome assessments in craniofacial care / Wendy E. Mouradian ... [et al.]
- Who should decide and how? / Priscilla Alderson
- The power of parents and the agency of children / Hilde Lindemann
- "In their best interests": parents' experience of atypical genitalia / Ellen K. Feder
- Toward truly informed decisions about appearance-normalizing surgeries / Paul Steven Miller
- Appearance-altering surgery, children's sense of self, and parental love / Adrienne Asch
- What to expect when you have the child you weren't expecting / Alice Domurat Dreger.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801883059
- OCLC:
- 61704741
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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