"First, do no harm"--the fiction of legal parental consent to genital-normalizing surgery on intersexed infants.
Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Medical professionals recognize the Latin mantra Primum, non nocere, "First, do no harm," as the first principle of medicine. Yet, between one hundred and two hundred times a year in America, pediatric surgeons do harm when they surgically "correct" the ambiguous genitalia of intersexed infants. These surgeries, which I call "genital-normalizing surgeries," are unjustifiably performed on an emergency basis and supported only by questionable science.
Source: PubMed
Author: K-K Ford
Institution: Yale University
Language: English
Subfield: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2200424750