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    The good, the bad and the blameworthy
    LEVY, NL (Annenberg Center, University of Southern California, 2005)
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    Downshifting and meaning in life
    Levy, N (WILEY, 2005-06)
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    Amputees by choice: body integrity identity disorder and the ethics of amputation.
    Bayne, T ; Levy, N (Wiley, 2005)
    Should surgeons be permitted to amputate healthy limbs if patients request such operations? We argue that if such patients are experiencing significant distress as a consequence of the rare psychological disorder named Body Integrity Identity Disorder (BIID), such operations might be permissible. We examine rival accounts of the origins of the desire for healthy limb amputations and argue that none are as plausible as the BIID hypothesis. We then turn to the moral arguments against such operations, and argue that on the evidence available, none is compelling. BIID sufferers meet reasonable standards for rationality and autonomy: so as long as no other effective treatment for their disorder is available, surgeons ought to be allowed to accede to their requests.
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    Reproductive cloning and a (kind of) genetic fallacy
    LEVY, NEIL LOUIS ; LOTZ, MARIANNE ( 2005)
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    Self-ownership: defending Marx against Cohen
    LEVY, NL ( 2002)
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    Deafness, culture, and choice
    Levy, N (BRITISH MED JOURNAL PUBL GROUP, 2002-10)
    The recent controversy surrounding the choice, by a deaf lesbian couple, to have children who were themselves deaf, has focused attention on the ethics of choosing (apparent) disabilities for children. Deaf activists argue that deafness is not a disability, but instead the constitutive condition of access to a rich culture. Being deaf carries disadvantages with it, but these are a product of discrimination, not of the condition itself. It is, however, implausible to think that all the disadvantages which stem from deafness are social in origin. Moreover, though it may be true that being deaf carries with it the important compensation of access to a rich culture, no physical condition is required for such access. Cultures are simply the kind of things to which we are born, and therefore to which the children of deaf parents, hearing or deaf, normally belong. Thus these parents are making a mistake in choosing deafness for their children. Given their own experience of isolation as children, however, it is a mistake which is understandable, and our reaction to them ought to be compassion, not condemnation.
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    Cultural membership and moral responsibility
    Levy, N ; Sugden, SJB (HEGELER INST, 2003-04)
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    Excusing responsibility for the inevitable
    Levy, N (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2002-01-01)