🎙️Contested Bodies with Leandro Loriga, PhD: A New Podcast on Autonomy, Medicine, and Power
I am pleased to announce the launch of Contested Bodies, a new podcast exploring the clash between individual autonomy and […]
The Map that Ate the World
How simulation replaced reality, how everyday life became a performance, and why artificial intelligence has arrived at precisely the wrong
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The Age of Doubt
How the collapse of tradition overburdened reason, multiplied doubt, and left the modern Self searching for orientation in a world
The Ethics of Amputating a Healthy Limb; What Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID) reveals about the four principles of medical ethics
If a patient of sound mind begs you to amputate a healthy leg, on what grounds do you refuse? The
The Looping Trolley and Temporal Extension of Moral Responsibility
Abstention under conditions of awareness and capacity is not morally neutral, and blameworthiness extends beyond the present moment to foreseeable
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Could Culture Shape a Disorder?
Body Integrity Dysphoria, image-saturation, and the cultural conditions that make certain forms of bodily distress easier to imagine, express, and
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How Psychiatry Redraws the Boundary of Disorder
Diagnostic categories change as evidence, clinical practice and social understanding develop. The history of gender-related diagnoses shows how this process
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Wishing for Amputation: Three Theories of Body Integrity Dysphoria (BID)
Body Integrity Dysphoria is now recognised in the ICD-11, but recognition has not settled the question of cause. The answer,
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What BID Shares with Gender Dysphoria, and Where the Comparison Ends
Body Integrity Dysphoria and Gender Dysphoria are often compared because both involve distress around the relation between self and body.
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When a Story Becomes a Diagnosis
For conditions without biomarkers, the patient’s narrative is not a supplement to the clinical evidence. It is the clinical evidence.
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