Rethinking "Normal" (No Child Left Different.) (Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries.) (Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, And the Pursuit of Normality.) (Book Review) Rethinking "Normal" (No Child Left Different.) (Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries.) (Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, And the Pursuit of Normality.) (Book Review)

Rethinking "Normal" (No Child Left Different.) (Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries.) (Surgically Shaping Children: Technology, Ethics, And the Pursuit of Normality.) (Book Review‪)‬

The Hastings Center Report 2007, May-June, 37, 3

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No Child Left Different. Ed. Sharon Olfman. Praeger Publishers, 2006. 256 pages. Hardcover, $39.95. Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries. Ed. David Benatar. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 246 pages. Paperback, $24.95.

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Science & Nature
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2007
1 May
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EN
English
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12
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Hastings Center
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