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Surgically shaping children : technology, ethics and the pursuit of normality.
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ISBN: 0801883059 9780801883057 9780801889165 0801889162 9780801890901 080189090X Year: 2006 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins university press

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Explores the ethical and social issues raised by the proliferation of surgeries designed to make children born with physical differences look more normal. This volume offers examinations of the significance of surgical alteration through narratives, theoretical reflections, and suggestions about how to improve the decision-making process.

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Abnormalities, Human --- Achondroplasia --- Biomedical Technology --- Child. --- Children --- Cleft Palate --- Decision making in children. --- Genitalia --- Reconstructive Surgical Procedures --- Social Perception. --- Surgery, Plastic --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- surgery. --- ethics. --- Surgery --- Decision making. --- Abnormalities. --- Decision making in children --- chirurgie (heelkunde) --- ethiek van de technologie (technologiekritiek, technologiemisbruik) --- kinderen --- kosmetische chirurgie --- lichaam --- verbetergeneeskunde (mensverbetering) --- Aesthetic surgery --- Cosmetic surgery --- Plastic surgery --- Reconstructive surgery --- Surgery, Aesthetic --- Surgery, Cosmetic --- Surgery, Reconstructive --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Plastic surgeons --- Child psychology --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- Abnormalities --- Anomalies, Congenital --- Birth defects --- Congenital abnormalities --- Congenital anomalies --- Defects, Birth --- Deformities --- Developmental abnormalities --- Human abnormalities --- Malformations, Congenital --- Morphology --- Pathology --- Teratogenesis --- Teratology --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Surgery&delete& --- Decision making --- chirurgie --- éthique de la technologie (critique de la technologie, abus de la technologie) --- enfants --- chirurgie cosmétique --- corps --- médecine de l'amélioration (médecine d'amélioration) --- Achondroplasty --- Chondrodystrophia foetalis --- Fetal rickets --- Rickets, Fetal --- Bones --- Dwarfism --- Fetus --- Metabolism, Inborn errors of --- Palate, Cleft --- Palate --- Generative tract --- Genital organs --- Genital system --- Genital tract --- Genitals --- Organa genitalia --- Reproductive organs --- Reproductive system --- Reproductive tract --- Sex organs --- Sexual organs --- Genitourinary organs --- Reproduction --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- abnormalities. --- Diseases

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