Non‐Therapeutic Modification and Self‐Interest: Reply to Schramme

Bioethics 22 (8):455-456 (2008)
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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.

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10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00668.x

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Benjamin L. Curtis
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