Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested SurgeriesDavid Benatar Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006. gada 7. marts - 246 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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... evidence equivocal. Compounding these problems is the ideological agenda or other bias that many people bring to either the empirical investigation or the interpretation of the results. Far too few people approach these questions ...
... evidence equivocal. Compounding these problems is the ideological agenda or other bias that many people bring to either the empirical investigation or the interpretation of the results. Far too few people approach these questions ...
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... evidence about the harms and benefits of the surgical procedures that are discussed. However, the chapters are empirically informed. Their authors have attempted to seek out and report the best evidence. This is woven into conceptual ...
... evidence about the harms and benefits of the surgical procedures that are discussed. However, the chapters are empirically informed. Their authors have attempted to seek out and report the best evidence. This is woven into conceptual ...
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... evidence and moral arguments sug— gests that in the case of neonatal male circumcision an intermediate View is the right one. We argue that although routine male circumcision is not medically indicated, it is also not contraindicated ...
... evidence and moral arguments sug— gests that in the case of neonatal male circumcision an intermediate View is the right one. We argue that although routine male circumcision is not medically indicated, it is also not contraindicated ...
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... depends heavily on whether early surgery benefits the child. They argue that we still have insufficient evidence to make a fully informed decision. Whereas the bodies of intersex people are neither unambiguously male Introduction 7.
... depends heavily on whether early surgery benefits the child. They argue that we still have insufficient evidence to make a fully informed decision. Whereas the bodies of intersex people are neither unambiguously male Introduction 7.
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... evidence that some medication were effective. Thus one condition for the use of placebos is the "equipoise” condition. Following this condition, placebos may only be administered when the evidence for whether or not the trial drug is ...
... evidence that some medication were effective. Thus one condition for the use of placebos is the "equipoise” condition. Following this condition, placebos may only be administered when the evidence for whether or not the trial drug is ...
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