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NON‐THERAPEUTIC MODIFICATION AND SELF‐INTEREST: REPLY TO SCHRAMME
Author(s) -
CURTIS BENJAMIN L.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
bioethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.494
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1467-8519
pISSN - 0269-9702
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00668.x
Subject(s) - paternalism , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , psychology , psychotherapist , philosophy , law and economics , sociology , medicine , law , political science
In this article I reply to Thomas Schramme's argument that there are no good reasons for the prohibition of severe forms of voluntary non‐therapeutic body modification. I argue that on paternalistic assumptions there is, in fact, a perfectly good reason.