Surgically Shaping Children
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-8305-7 (ISBN)
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At a time when medical technologies make it ever easier to enhance our minds and bodies, a debate has arisen about whether such efforts promote a process of "normalization," which makes it ever harder to tolerate the natural anatomical differences among us. The debate becomes especially complicated when it addresses the surgical alteration, or "shaping," of children. This volume explores the ethical and social issues raised by the recent proliferation of surgeries designed to make children born with physical differences look more normal. Using three cases-surgeries to eliminate craniofacial abnormalities such as cleft lip and palate, surgeries to correct ambiguous genitalia, and surgeries to lengthen the limbs of children born with dwarfism-the contributors consider the tensions parents experience when making such life-altering decisions on behalf of or with their children. The essays in this volume offer in-depth examinations of the significance and limits of surgical alteration through personal narratives, theoretical reflections, and concrete suggestions about how to improve the decision-making process.
Written from the perspectives of affected children and their parents, health care providers, and leading scholars in philosophy, sociology, history, law, and medicine, this collection provides an integrated and comprehensive foundation from which to consider a complex and controversial issue. It takes the reader on a journey from reflections on the particulars of current medical practices to reflections on one of the deepest and most complex of human desires: the desire for normality. Contributors Priscilla Alderson, Adrienne Asch, Cassandra Aspinall, Alice Domurat Dreger, James C. Edwards, Todd C. Edwards, Ellen K. Feder, Arthur W. Frank, Lisa Abelow Hedley, Eva Fedder Kittay, Hilde Lindemann, Jeffery L. Marsh, Paul Steven Miller, Sherri G. Morris, Wendy E. Mouradian, Donald L. Patrick, Nichola Rumsey, Emily Sullivan Sanford, Tari D. Topolski
Erik Parens is a senior research scholar at The Hastings Center, a visiting professor in the Science, Technology, and Society Program at Sarah Lawrence College, and the coeditor of Wrestling with Behavioral Genetics: Science, Ethics, and Public Conversation (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2005). He is also editor of Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Georgetown Univ. Press, 1998) and Prenatal Testing and Disability Rights (Georgetown Univ.Press, 2000).
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Thinking About Surgically Changing Children
Part I: Personal Narratives About Appearance – Normalizing Surgery
Chapter 1. Twisted Lies: My Journey in an Imperfect Body
Chapter 2. Do I Make You Uncomfortable? Reflections on Using Surgery to Reduce the Distress of Others
Chapter 3. My Shoe Size Stayed the Same: Maintaining a Positive Sense of Identity with Achondroplasia and Limb-Lengthening Surgeries
Chapter 4. The Seduction of the Surgical Fix
Part II: Technology and the Pursuit of Normality
Chapter 5. Concepts of Technology and Their Role in Moral Reflection
Chapter 6. Emily's Scars: Surgical Shapings, Technoluxe, and Bioethics
Chapter 7. Thoughts on the Desire for Normality
Part III: The Surgical Context
Chapter 8. To Cut or Not to Cut? A Surgeon's Perspective on Surgically Shaping Children
Chapter 9. What's Special About the Surgical Context?
Chapter 10. Are We Helping Children? Outcome Assessments in Craniofacial Care
Part IV: Children and Parents Deciding About Appearance–Normalizing Surgery
Chapter 11. Who Should Decide and How?
Chapter 12. The Power of Parents and the Agency of Children
Chapter 13. "In Their Best Interests": Parents' Experience of Atypical Genitalia
Chapter 14. Toward Truly Informed Decisions About Appearance-Normalizing Surgeries
Chapter 15. Appearance-Altering Surgery, Children's Sense of Self, and Parental Love
Chapter 16. What to Expect when You Have the Child You Weren't Expecting
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.7.2006 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 2 Line drawings, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Baltimore, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Chirurgie ► Ästhetische und Plastische Chirurgie |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8018-8305-9 / 0801883059 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8018-8305-7 / 9780801883057 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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