Morphological freedom
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Morphological freedom designates a right of human beings either to maintain or to modify their own bodies, on their own terms, through informed, consensual recourse to, or refusal of, available remedial or modification medicine.
The term was coined by science debater Anders Sandberg who defined it as "an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires."
According to lecturer Dale Carrico, the politics of morphological freedom imply a commitment to the value, standing, and social legibility of the widest possible variety of desired morphologies and lifestyles. More specifically, morphological freedom is an expression of liberal pluralism, secular progressive cosmopolitanism, or posthumanist multiculturalisms applied to an era of disruptive global technological change, and especially to the ongoing and upcoming transformation of the understanding of medical practice from one of conventional remedy to one of consensual self-creation, via genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification.
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- Carrico, Dale. (2004) Keep Your Laws Off My Body
- Carrico, Dale. (2005) Morphological Freedom and the Conservatism of "Recovery"
- Carrico, Dale. (2005) A Dose of the New Medical Reality
- Carrico, Dale. (2006) The Politics of Morphological Freedom"
- Sanberg, Anders. (2001) Morphological Freedom -- Why We not just Want it, but Need it
