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This chapter describes the concept of enhancement of children as contrasted to treatment of a child’s disease or disorder to restore health and normal functionality. Using examples—including treatment of idiopathic short stature with growth hormone, growth attenuation in a profoundly developmentally disabled child, the use of psychotropic drugs to enhance performance, and embryo selection for desired traits—ethical issues are raised and examined to address the controversial area of parental requests for and physician obligations concerning providing treatments that go beyond restoring children to “normal,”,but rather are intended to produce children who have greater capacity than their inherent potential. The problems connected with this field will have increasing implications in the future as medicine becomes capable of doing more and more. |
