Short is beautiful
by Michael Cook | 10 Feb 2017 |
Here is an interesting voice in the debate over gene editing. Who decides which traits are valuable and which are not? Australian actress Kiruna Stamell, who has dwarfism, questions the conventional wisdom.
A child who self-harms must be one of the most agonising experiences a parent can have. But it is relatively common. A study in The Lancet a few years ago found that about 1 in 12 teenagers, mostly girls, engaged in self-harming behaviour, with the most common methods cutting or burning. Most of them stop as adults, but some continue. It is a phenomenon which still seems to baffle the medical profession, despite the abundance of statistics.
In this issue of BioEdge, we report on an interesting response to self-harm, at least for some patients – educate them to minimise the harm, but supply them with razors. Given that harm minimisation is a popular public policy approach in other areas, like drugs, this makes some sense. But I think that most people will regard it as quite confronting. What do you think?
Michael Cook
Editor
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