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



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Titolo: Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality / / edited by Erik Parens Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore, Md., : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
Disciplina: 617.9/8
Soggetto topico: Children - Surgery - Moral and ethical aspects
Abnormalities, Human - Moral and ethical aspects
Surgery, Plastic - Moral and ethical aspects
Children - Surgery - Decision making
Decision making in children
Altri autori: ParensErik <1957->  
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: Patrick, Nichola Rumsey, Emily Sullivan Sanford, Tari D. Topolski.
Titolo autorizzato: Surgically shaping children  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8018-8916-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828606703321
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