Cutting to the Core

When the benefits of surgery do not outweigh the harms or where they do not clearly do so surgical interventions become morally contested. <I>Cutting to the Core</I> examines a number of such surgeries including infant male circumcision and cutting the genitals of female children the separation of conjoined twins surgical sex assignment of intersex children and the surgical re-assignment of transsexuals limb and face transplantation cosmetic surgery and placebo surgery.