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The Ethics of Limb Amputation and Locus of Disease

By Adam Kolber

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The Ethics of Limb Amputation and Locus of Disease, by Ronald Pies, was recently published in Neuroethics. The abstract is below. You should also check out Christopher Ryan's reply here:

Ronald Pies^{1, 2, 3}

(1)	Department Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA

(2)	Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA

(3)	Present address: Box 332, Bedford, MA 01730, USA

Abstract: The ethics of medically-authorized limb amputation in individuals with Body integrity identity disorder (BIID) remains extremely controversial. One factor to consider is the putative locus of a disease process, and whether the proposed treatment--in this case, limb amputation?reasonably addresses the issue of what organ is mediating the patient?s complaint.

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).

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