Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested SurgeriesDavid Benatar Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 - 236 lappuses 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 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 genitals of female children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and placebo surgery. When, if ever, do the benefits of these surgeries outweigh their costs? May a surgeon perform dangerous procedures that are not clearly to the patient's benefit, even if the patient consents to them? May a surgeon perform any surgery on a minor patient if there are no clear benefits to that child? These and other related questions are the core themes of this collection of essays. |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 52.
7. lappuse
... clear that it always has this effect . There is now a growing and powerful challenge to the practice . In the first place , it has been noted that gender — psychological sex — is not quite as plastic as was once thought . A child reared ...
... clear that it always has this effect . There is now a growing and powerful challenge to the practice . In the first place , it has been noted that gender — psychological sex — is not quite as plastic as was once thought . A child reared ...
8. lappuse
... clearly are ei- ther male or female . Transsexuals are those who believe themselves to be trapped in a body of the wrong sex . There is a discord between their bodily and psychological sex . This explains why some transsexuals seek ...
... clearly are ei- ther male or female . Transsexuals are those who believe themselves to be trapped in a body of the wrong sex . There is a discord between their bodily and psychological sex . This explains why some transsexuals seek ...
10. lappuse
... clear that they would evaluate them in the same way . LIMB AND FACE TRANSPLANTATION It is a sad irony that while there are some people whose healthy limbs seem foreign to them and who wish them amputated , there are others who have lost ...
... clear that they would evaluate them in the same way . LIMB AND FACE TRANSPLANTATION It is a sad irony that while there are some people whose healthy limbs seem foreign to them and who wish them amputated , there are others who have lost ...
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... clear that those assigned to the placebo arms are really at any disadvantage . Until we know from a placebo- controlled trial that some surgical intervention actually works , it is not at all clear that we are unfair to those who ...
... clear that those assigned to the placebo arms are really at any disadvantage . Until we know from a placebo- controlled trial that some surgical intervention actually works , it is not at all clear that we are unfair to those who ...
15. lappuse
... clearly in the best interests of a child . In such cases , other factors may tip the scale in one direction or the other ... clear whether adult patients are autonomous and capable of making a decision for themselves . Is the wannabe's ...
... clearly in the best interests of a child . In such cases , other factors may tip the scale in one direction or the other ... clear whether adult patients are autonomous and capable of making a decision for themselves . Is the wannabe's ...
Saturs
IV | 23 |
VI | 47 |
VIII | 63 |
X | 79 |
XIII | 97 |
XIV | 113 |
XV | 127 |
XVII | 141 |
XX | 171 |
XXI | 183 |
XXIV | 197 |
XXVI | 211 |
XXVII | 229 |
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XXIX | 235 |
XIX | 155 |
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Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries David Benatar Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 2006 |
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acceptable American Journal argue argument arthroscopic assessment associated autonomy basic interests Benatar benefits Bioethics body child child's best interests claim clinical research clitoris conjoined twins consider contested surgeries cosmetic surgery cultural cumcision decision disability disfigurement donor Dreger early surgery effect ethical issues evidence example face transplantation facial transplantation Female Circumcision female genital cutting feminists foreskin gender genital alteration genitalia gery GRES hand transplant harm human identity individual infant infection intersex intersex children intersex conditions intervention Journal of Bioethics limb transplants lives male circumcision Medicine moral neonatal circumcision newborn normal organ donation organs parents Parkinson's disease participants patients PCST Pediatrics penile cancer performed person placebo surgery plastic surgery practice problem psychological question reasons reassignment recipient reconstructive surgery removal require risks sex assignment sexual sham sham-surgery controls social standard studies subjects suggest surgeons surgical procedures therapeutic therapy tion tissue transsexual treatment trial uncircumcised women