Cutting to the Core Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries,9780742550001

Cutting to the Core Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

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ISBN13: 9780742550001
ISBN10: 0742550001
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-07
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
List Price: $143.00

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Summary

When the benefits of surgery 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.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: The Ethics of Contested Surgeries 1(22)
David Benatar
Part I: Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting
Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision
23(24)
Michael Benatar
David Benatar
The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision: Helping Parents to Decide
47(16)
Leslie Cannold
Genital Alteration of Female Minors
63(16)
Dena S. Davis
Part II: Sex Assignment and Reassignment Surgery
The Ethics of Surgically Assigning Sex for Intersex Children
79(18)
Merle Spriggs
Julian Savulescu
Transsexualism and Gender Reassignment Surgery
97(16)
Heather Draper
Neil Evans
Part III: Separating Conjoined Twins
Separating Conjoined Twins: Disability, Ontology, and Moral Status
113(14)
Richard Hull
Stephen Wilkinson
Conjunction and Separation: Viable Relationships, Equitable Partings
127(14)
David Wasserman
Part IV: Limb and Face Transplantation
Ethical Issues in Limb Transplants
141(14)
Donna Dickenson
Guy Widdershoven
Changing Faces: Ethics, Identity, and Facial Transplantation
155(16)
Francoise Baylis
Part V: Cosmetic Surgery
A Defense of Cosmetic Surgery
171(12)
Stephen Coleman
Beauty under the Knife: A Feminist Appraisal of Cosmetic Surgery
183(14)
Rosemarie Tong
Hilde Lindemann
Part VI: Placebo Surgery
The Emperor's New Scar: The Ethics of Placebo Surgery
197(14)
David Neil
Sham Surgery and Reasonable Risks
211(18)
Alex John London
Suggestions for Further Reading 229(4)
Index 233(2)
About the Editor and Contributors 235

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