Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality / / edited by Erik Parens.

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Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:xxx, 274 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Twisted lies: my journey in an imperfect body / Sherri G. Morrris
  • 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.