The Ethics of Altering Children

Grant number: DP130100454 | Funding period: 2013 - 2016

Completed

Abstract

Parents sometimes request surgery or drug therapy to change a child's physical appearance. This project will provide ethical guidance to doctors and policy makers about ethically appropriate ways to respond to such requests.

Related publications (5)

‘Operating is the easy part’: Surgeons’ decision-making processes and responses to parental requests for elective paediatric appearance-altering facial surgery

L Notini, L Gillam, M Spriggs, A Penington

2019-08-01

Some parents request elective appearance-altering facial surgery for their children for cosmetic, psychological and/or social reas..

“I Don’t See That as a Medical Problem”: Clinicians’ Attitudes and Responses to Requests for Cosmetic Genital Surgery by Adolescents

M Spriggs, L Gillam

2018-12-01

Labiaplasty is a form of genital surgery to reduce large or protruding labia minora. Internationally, the rates of this surgery am..

Cosmetic Labiaplasty: Defining “Normality” Is Not the Issue

M Spriggs, L Gillam

2017-06-01

Body dysmorphic disorder: Contraindication or ethical justification for female genital cosmetic surgery in adolescents

M Spriggs, L Gillam

2016-11-01

Is Female Genital Cosmetic Surgery for an adolescent with Body Dysmorphic Disorder ever ethically justified? Cosmetic genital surg..

Parent-led request for female genital cosmetic surgery in an adolescent

M SPRIGGS

2016-01-01

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Lynn Gillam