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Edited by Erik Parens. 274 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. $50. ISBN 978-0-8018-8305-7.

Most people do not question the benefits of surgeries undertaken to give children a more normal appearance. Some recognize the tension inherent in making such decisions but nevertheless surrender to the social pressures of conforming to normalcy. They feel the need to do something, even when doing so may not be clearly advantageous for the child. They tend to yield to the dubious authority of the technological imperative. For these reasons, this compilation of essays edited by Erik Parens is vitally important.

In his introduction, Parens describes the book as an exploration of the tension between the desire to have . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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