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    <title>Surgically shaping children</title>
    <subTitle>technology, ethics, and the pursuit of normality</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Parens, Erik</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1957-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Johns Hopkins University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2006</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxx, 274 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Twisted lies: my journey in an imperfect body / Sherri G. Morrris -- Do I make you uncomfortable? Reflections on using surgery to reduce the distress of others / Cassandra Aspinall -- My shoe size stayed the same: maintaining a positive sense of identity with achondroplasia and limb-lengthening surgeries / Emily Sullivan Sanford -- The seduction of the surgical fix / Lisa Abelow Hedley -- Concepts of technology and their role in moral reflection / James C. Edwards -- Emily's scars: surgical shapings, technoluxe, and bioethics / Arthur W. Frank -- Thoughts on the desire for normality / Eva Feder Kittay -- To cut or not to cut? A surgeon's perspective on surgically shaping children / Jeffrey L. Marsh -- What's special about the surgical context? / Wendy E. Mouradian -- Are we helping children? Outcome assessments in craniofacial care / Wendy E. Mouradian ... [et al.] -- Who should decide and how? / Priscilla Alderson -- The power of parents and the agency of children / Hilde Lindemann -- "In their best interests": parents' experience of atypical genitalia / Ellen K. Feder -- Toward truly informed decisions about appearance-normalizing surgeries / Paul Steven Miller -- Appearance-altering surgery, children's sense of self, and parental love / Adrienne Asch -- What to expect when you have the child you weren't expecting / Alice Domurat Dreger.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Erik Parens.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Children</topic>
    <topic>Surgery</topic>
    <topic>Moral and ethical aspects</topic>
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    <topic>Abnormalities, Human</topic>
    <topic>Moral and ethical aspects</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Surgery, Plastic</topic>
    <topic>Moral and ethical aspects</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Children</topic>
    <topic>Surgery</topic>
    <topic>Decision making</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Decision making in children</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">RD137 .S846 2006eb</classification>
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