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When The State Requires Doctors To Act Against Their Conscience: The Religious Freedom Implications Of The Referral And The Direction Obligations Of Health Practitioners In Victoria And New South Wales, Michael Quinlan
BYU Law Review
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Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation As Social Control, Matt Lamkin
Regulating Identity: Medical Regulation As Social Control, Matt Lamkin
BYU Law Review
New biomedical technologies offer growing opportunities not only to prevent and treat illnesses, but also to change how healthy people think, feel, behave, and appear to others. Controversies over these nontherapeutic practices are a pervasive feature of contemporary American culture, from students on “study drugs” and cops on steroids to skin-lightening by black celebrities and the over-prescription of antidepressants. Yet the diversity of these controversies often masks their common root—namely, disputes about the propriety of using medical technologies as tools for shaping one’s identity.
Some observers believe these so-called “enhancement” practices threaten important values, offering unfair advantages to users and …