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Cutting to the Core
Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries
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2006
Summary
Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and other related questions are the core themes of this collection of essays.
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Bibliographic data
Copyright year
2006
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-5001-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7616-2
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
237
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Introduction: The Ethics of Contested Surgeries No access Pages 1 - 20
1 Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision Michael Benatar and David Benatar No access
2 The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision: Helping Parents to Decide Leslie Cannold No access
3 Genital Alteration of Female Minors Dena S. Davis No access
4 The Ethics of Surgically Assigning Sex for Intersex Children Merle Spriggsand Julian Savulescu No access
5 Transsexualism and Gender Reassignment Surgery Heather Draper and Neil Evans No access
6 Separating Conjoined Twins: Disability, Ontology, and Moral Status Richard Hull and Stephen Wilkinson No access
7 Conjunction and Separation: Viable Relationships, Equitable Partings David Wasserman No access
8 Ethical Issues in Limb Transplants Donna Dickenson and Guy Widdershoven No access
9 Changing Faces: Ethics, Identity, and Facial Transplantation Françoise Baylis No access
10 A Defense of Cosmetic Surgery Stephen Coleman No access
11 Beauty under the Knife: A Feminist Appraisal of Cosmetic Surgery Rosemarie Tong and Hilde Lindemann No access
12 The Emperor's New Scar: The Ethics of Placebo Surgery David Neil No access
13 Sham Surgery and Reasonable Risks Alex John London No access
Suggestions for Further Reading No access Pages 229 - 232
Index No access Pages 233 - 234
About the Editor and Contributors No access Pages 235 - 237
