{"id":10441,"date":"2021-01-24T21:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T05:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10441"},"modified":"2021-03-14T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T22:31:52","slug":"after-all-what-is-really-wrong-with-apotemnophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10441","title":{"rendered":"After all, what is really wrong with apotemnophilia?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Michael Cook*<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Apotemnophilia is one of those words which may be useful in Scrabble\u00a9 but seldom come up in day-to-day discourse, let alone medical practice. However, it is an increasingly contested issue in bioethics, though better known as BIID, Bodily Integrity Identity Disorder, or the amputation of healthy limbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIID is a rare psychiatric condition in which people know that their leg (for instance) is normal and healthy, but still feel that it is not part of their identity; they want it cut off, even though they realise that they will become disabled. Oddly enough, however, they often do not seem to mind wearing a prosthesis to recover some of the limb\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a provocative article in The New Bioethics<\/a>, Richard Gibson, of the University of Manchester Law School, in the UK, asks whether ultimately there would be anything wrong with BIID if a prosthesis provided equal or better functionality. . . [Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BioEdge Reproduced under Creative Commons Licence Michael Cook* Apotemnophilia is one of those words which may be useful in Scrabble\u00a9 but seldom come up in day-to-day discourse, let alone medical practice. 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