Open AccessThe ethics of separating conjoined twins
Author(s) -
Winter George F
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/rcsbull.2017.24
Subject(s) - conjoined twins , george (robot) , identity (music) , state (computer science) , sociology , genealogy , philosophy , art , history , aesthetics , medicine , art history , anatomy , mathematics , algorithm
‘What God has joined together, let no man put asunder’. George F Winter asks to what extent can their conjoined state be considered part of a ‘Siamese’ twin’s individual identity?