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Emily's Scars: Surgical Shapings, Technoluxe, and Bioethics
Author(s) -
Frank Arthur W.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3527682
Subject(s) - bioethics , scars , engineering ethics , psychology , law and economics , medicine , sociology , law , political science , surgery , engineering
Increasingly, medicine is used to remodel, revise, and revamp as much as to heal and mend. It is tempting to say that people make merely personal choices about these new uses. But such choices have implications for everybody, and they ought to be made cautiously, slowly, and in a way that opens them to discussion.