Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality
- Title
- Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality / edited by Erik Parens.
- Published by
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
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- Description
- xxx, 274 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Children > Moral and ethical aspects
- Abnormalities, Human > Moral and ethical aspects
- Surgery, Plastic > Moral and ethical aspects
- Children > Decision making
- Decision making in children
- Plastic Surgery Procedures > ethics
- Achondroplasia > surgery
- Biomedical Technology > ethics
- Child
- Cleft Palate > surgery
- Genitalia > abnormalities
- Social Perception
- Contents
- Introduction : thinking about surgically shaping children / Erik Parens -- 1. Twisted lies : my journey in an imperfect body / Sherri G. Morris -- 2. Do I make you uncomfortable? : reflections on using surgery to reduce the distress of others / Cassandra Aspinall -- 3. My shoe size stayed the same : maintaining a positive sense of identity with achondroplasia and limb-lengthening surgeries / Emily Sullivan Sanford -- 4. The seduction of the surgical fix / Lisa Abelow Hedley -- 5. Concepts of technology and their role in moral reflection / James C. Edwards -- 6. Emily's scars : surgical shaping, technoluxe, and bioethics / Arthur W. Frank -- 7. Thoughts on the desire for normality / Eva Feder Kittay -- 8. To cut or not to cut? : a surgeon's perspective on surgically shaping children / Jeffrey L. Marsh -- 9. What's special about the surgical context? / Wendy E. Mouradian -- 10. Are we helping children? : outcome assessments in craniofacial care / Wendy E. Mouradian, Todd C. Edwards, Tari D. Topolski, Nichola Rumsey and Donald L. Patrick -- 11. Who should decide and how? / Priscilla Alderson -- 12. The power of parents and the agency of children / Hilde Lindemann -- 13. "In their best interests" : parents' experience of atypical genitalia / Ellen K. Feder -- 14. Toward truly informed decisions about appearance-normalizing surgeries / Paul Steven Miller -- 15. Appearance-altering surgery, children's sense of self, and parental love / Adrienne Asch -- 16. What to expect when you have the child you weren't expecting / Alice Domurat Dreger.
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.