Chemical castration may prevent future offences. But at what cost?
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Medical law is based on the idea that a patient consents to an intervention that will benefit them. Is that the case here?
The truth is that there are no easy and quick fixes, such as the governing party’s recent castration idea, which falls short on a range of scores.
Current conversion therapies can’t effectively switch someone’s sexual orientation. But there could be a time down the road when neuroscience can do what they can’t. Where does that leave gay rights?
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Associate Director, Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy, University of Oxford
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J.D. University of Michigan, University of Michigan
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Research Fellow, Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Biochemistry, Sheffield Hallam University