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Title Cutting to the core : exploring the ethics of contested surgeries / edited by David Benatar
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefiels, 2006

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Description x, 236 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Between prophylaxis and child abuse / Michael Benatar & David Benatar -- The ethics of neonatal male circumcision / Leslie Cannold -- Genital alteration of female minors / Dena Davis -- The ethics of surgically assigning sex for intersex infants / Merle Spriggs & Julian Savulescu -- Transsexualism and gender re-assignment surgery / Heather Daper & Nil Evans -- Separating conjoined twins / Richard Hull & Stephen Wilkinson -- Conjunction and separation / David wasserman -- Ethical issues in limb transplants / Donna Dickenson & Guy Widdershoven -- Changing faces / Françoise Baylis -- A defence of cosmetic surgery / Stephen Coleman -- Beauty under the knife / Rosemarie Tong & Hilde Lindemann -- The emperor's new scar / David Neil -- Sham surgery and reasonable risks / Alex John London
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Surgery -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical ethics.
Author Benatar, David.
LC no. 2005028842
ISBN 0742550001 cloth alkaline paper
074255001X paperback alkaline paper
9789742550001 cloth
9780742550018 paperback