Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality / edited by Erik Parens.
Publication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.Description: xxx, 274 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0801883059 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 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
- Reconstructive Surgical Procedures -- ethics
- Achondroplasia -- surgery
- Biomedical Technology -- ethics
- Child
- Cleft Palate -- surgery
- Genitalia -- abnormalities
- Social Perception
- 617.9/8 22
- RD137 .S846 2006
- 2006 I-234
- WO 600
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.