Cutting to the core
Subtitle: exploring the ethics of contested surgeries
By: edited by David Benatar.
Contributors: Benatar, David.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefiels
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Surgery -- Moral and ethical aspects.; Medical ethics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Between prophylaxis and child abuse / Michael Benatar & David Benatar; title: The ethics of neonatal male circumcision / Leslie Cannold; title: Genital alteration of female minors / Dena Davis; title: The ethics of surgically assigning sex for intersex infants / Merle Spriggs & Julian Savulescu; title: Transsexualism and gender re-assignment surgery / Heather Daper & Nil Evans; title: Separating conjoined twins /  Richard Hull & Stephen Wilkinson; title: Conjunction and separation / David wasserman; title: Ethical issues in limb transplants / Donna Dickenson & Guy Widdershoven; title: Changing faces / Françoise Baylis; title: A defence of cosmetic surgery / Stephen Coleman; title: Beauty under the knife / Rosemarie Tong & Hilde Lindemann; title: The emperor's new scar / David Neil; title: Sham surgery and reasonable risks / Alex John London.