Paradigms revised: intersex children, bioethics & the law.

Mind the Gaps: Intersex and (Re-productive) Spaces in Disability Studies and Bioethics

With a few notable exceptions disability studies has not taken account of intersexuality, and it is principally through the lenses of feminist and queer-theory oriented ethical discussions but not through ‘straight’ bioethics that modes valuing intersex difference have been proposed. Meanwhile, the medical presupposition that intersex characteristics are inherently disabling to social viability...

Paradigms and our shrinking bioethics.

Principles and other emerging paradigms in bioethics.

Legal Recognition of Intersex Persons; From Negative Recognition to Positive Recognition

Incontrovertibly each person’s body has an undeniable role in shaping personality and in self- definition of ego. Nowadays and based on scientific efforts, we know sex and accordingly, gender, as a spectrum in inter bodily experience. Over the long years intersex status was considered a "disorder", but recently and in the light of modern medical, psychiatric and cognitive science, "different" e...

Intersex(es) and informed consent: how physicians' rhetoric constrains choice.

When a child is born with ambiguous genitalia it is declared a psychosocial emergency, and the policy first proposed by John Money (Johns Hopkins University) and adapted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (and more broadly accepted in Canada, the U.K., and Europe) requires determination of underlying condition(s), selection of gender, surgical intervention, and a commitment by all parties to...