Surgically shaping children
Subtitle: technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality
By: edited by Erik Parens.
Contributors: Parens, Erik, 1957-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: 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 -- Child.; Achondroplasia -- surgery -- Child.; Biomedical Technology -- ethics.; Cleft Palate -- surgery -- Child.; Genitalia -- abnormalities -- Child.; Social Perception -- Child.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Twisted lies: my journey in an imperfect body / Sherri G. Morrris; title: Do I make you uncomfortable? Reflections on using surgery to reduce the distress of others / Cassandra Aspinall; title: My shoe size stayed the same: maintaining a positive sense of identity with achondroplasia and limb-lengthening surgeries / Emily Sullivan Sanford; title: The seduction of the surgical fix / Lisa Abelow Hedley; title: Concepts of technology and their role in moral reflection / James C. Edwards; title: Emily's scars: surgical shapings, technoluxe, and bioethics / Arthur W. Frank; title: Thoughts on the desire for normality / Eva Feder Kittay; title: To cut or not to cut? A surgeon's perspective on surgically shaping children / Jeffrey L. Marsh; title: What's special about the surgical context? / Wendy E. Mouradian; title: Are we helping children? Outcome assessments in craniofacial care / Wendy E. Mouradian ... [et al.]; title: Who should decide and how? / Priscilla Alderson; title: The power of parents and the agency of children / Hilde Lindemann; title: "In their best interests": parents' experience of atypical genitalia / Ellen K. Feder; title: Toward truly informed decisions about appearance-normalizing surgeries / Paul Steven Miller; title: Appearance-altering surgery, children's sense of self, and parental love / Adrienne Asch; title: What to expect when you have the child you're not expecting / Alice Domurat Dreger.