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Making Sense of Intersex : Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Indiana University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (334 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253012326
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 174.2/96694
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Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Disciplinary Limits: Philosophy, Bioethics, and the Medical Management of Atypical Sex -- 1 The Trouble with Intersex: History Lessons -- 2 "In Their Best Interests": Parents' Experience of Atypical Sex Anatomy in Children -- 3 Tilting the Ethical Lens: Shame, Disgust, and the Body in Question -- 4 Reassigning Ambiguity: Parental Decisions and the Matter of Harm -- 5 A Question of Ethics as/or a Question of Culture: The Problem of What Is and What Ought to Be -- 6 Neutralizing Morality: Nondirective Counseling of Parents of Children with Intersex Conditions, 2006- -- 7 Practicing Virtue: A Parental Duty -- 8 Protecting Vulnerability: An Imperative of Care -- Conclusion. Lessons from Physicians -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary: Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions--one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors--Feder presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Disciplinary Limits: Philosophy, Bioethics, and the Medical Management of Atypical Sex -- 1 The Trouble with Intersex: History Lessons -- 2 "In Their Best Interests": Parents' Experience of Atypical Sex Anatomy in Children -- 3 Tilting the Ethical Lens: Shame, Disgust, and the Body in Question -- 4 Reassigning Ambiguity: Parental Decisions and the Matter of Harm -- 5 A Question of Ethics as/or a Question of Culture: The Problem of What Is and What Ought to Be -- 6 Neutralizing Morality: Nondirective Counseling of Parents of Children with Intersex Conditions, 2006- -- 7 Practicing Virtue: A Parental Duty -- 8 Protecting Vulnerability: An Imperative of Care -- Conclusion. Lessons from Physicians -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Proposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions--one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors--Feder presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.

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