RT Article
T1 Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 26
IS 4
SP 487
OP 503
A1 Song, Robert 1962-
LA English
YR 2013
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/177658547X
AB The rare phenomenon in which a person desires amputation of a healthy limb, now often termed body integrity identity disorder, raises central questions for biomedical ethics. Standard bioethical discussions of surgical intervention in such cases fail to address the meaning of bodily integrity, which is intrinsic to a theological understanding of the goodness of the body. However, moral theological responses are liable to assume that such interventions necessarily represent an implicitly docetic manipulation of the body. Through detailed attention to the ethics of mutilation and of surgery for psychiatric disorders, this article explores the theological and ethical significance of the body for human identity.
K1 Psychiatric ethics
K1 mutilation
K1 Identity
K1 gender identity disorder
K1 gender dysphoria
K1 Ethics
K1 Enhancement
K1 Body Integrity Identity Disorder
K1 Body
DO 10.1177/0953946813492921