Body Integrity Identity Disorder and the Ethics of Mutilation

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...

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主要作者: Song, Robert 1962- (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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出版: 2013
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2013, 卷: 26, 发布: 4, Pages: 487-503
Further subjects:B Ethics
B Body Integrity Identity Disorder
B gender identity disorder
B gender dysphoria
B Identity
B Psychiatric ethics
B mutilation
B Enhancement
B Body
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总结: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.
ISSN:0953-9468
Contains:Enthalten in: Studies in Christian ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0953946813492921