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Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries Book

Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries
Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries, Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they d, Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries has a rating of 4 stars
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Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries, Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they d, Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries
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  • Cutting to the Core: Ethics of Contested Surgeries
  • Written by author David Benatar
  • Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., April 2006
  • Surgery inevitably inflicts some harm on the body. At the very least, it damages the tissue that is cut. These harms often are clearly outweighed by the overall benefits to the patient. However, where the benefits do not outweigh the harms or where they d
  • When the benefits of surgery do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so, surgical interventions become morally contested. Cutting to the Core examines a number of such surgeries, including infant male circumcision and cutting the genital
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Preface     ix
Introduction: The Ethics of Contested Surgeries   David Benatar     1
Male Circumcision and Female Genital Cutting
Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision   Michael Benatar   David Benatar     23
The Ethics of Neonatal Male Circumcision: Helping Parents to Decide   Leslie Cannold     47
Genital Alteration of Female Minors   Dena S. Davis     63
Sex Assignment and Reassignment Surgery
The Ethics of Surgically Assigning Sex for Intersex Children   Merle Spriggs   Julian Savulescu     79
Transsexualism and Gender Reassignment Surgery   Heather Draper   Neil Evans     97
Separating Conjoined Twins
Separating Conjoined Twins: Disability, Ontology, and Moral Status   Richard Hull   Stephen Wilkinson     113
Conjunction and Separation: Viable Relationships, Equitable Partings   David Wasserman     127
Limb and Face Transplantation
Ethical Issues in Limb Transplants   Donna Dickenson   Guy Widdershoven     141
Changing Faces: Ethics, Identity, and Facial Transplantation   Francoise Baylis     155
Cosmetic Surgery
A Defense of Cosmetic Surgery   Stephen Coleman     171
Beauty under the Knife: A Feminist Appraisal of Cosmetic Surgery   Rosemarie Tong   Hilde Lindemann     183
Placebo Surgery
The Emperor's New Scar: The Ethics of Placebo Surgery   David Neil     197
Sham Surgery and Reasonable Risks   Alex John London     211
Suggestions for Further Reading     229
Index     233
About the Editor and Contributors     235


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