Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries

Benatar, David [Editor]; Benatar, Michael [Contributor]; Cannold, Leslie [Contributor]; Davis, Dena [Contributor]; Spriggs, Merle [Contributor]; Savulescu, Julian [Contributor]; Draper, Heather [Contributor]; Evans, Neil [Contributor]; Hull, Richard [Contributor]; Wilkinson, Stephen [Contributor]; Wasserman Clinical Center Department of Bioethics National Institutes of Health, David [Contributor]; Dickenson, Donna [Contributor]; Widdershoven, Guy [Contributor]; Baylis, Françoise [Contributor]; Coleman, Stephen [Contributor]; Tong, Rosemarie [Contributor]; Lindemann, Hilde [Contributor]; Neil, David [Contributor]; London, Alex John [Contributor];

ISBN 10: 074255001X / ISBN 13: 9780742550018

Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006

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• Titolo: Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 074255001X
• ISBN 13: 9780742550018
• Rilegatura: paperback
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

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 genitals of female children, the separation of conjoined twins, surgical sex assignment of intersex children and the surgical reassignment of transsexuals, limb and face transplantation, cosmetic surgery, and placebo surgery.

Informazioni sull?autore

David Benatar is an associate professor and head of the philosophy department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.