What if, for as long as you can remember, you鈥檝e strongly felt as though one of your healthy limbs just doesn't belong? You鈥檝e always wished it could be amputated.
You aren鈥檛 the only person with this feeling, but you would be one of fewer than 400 documented cases of body integrity dysphoria (BID) or body integrity identity disorder (BIID) in the world.
Meet a man with BID, who, after years of struggling with his bodily identity, traveled to Asia to have his left leg under the knee amputated.
Hear how he鈥檚 felt since the surgery, and meet a bioethicist and moral philosopher who has pondered the origin and ethics of this rare condition.
GUESTS:
- : A bioethicist and moral philosopher currently at the University of Texas Medical Branch. His thesis was about the ethics of elective amputations, specifically for body integrity identity disorder (BIID)
- Dan: A Wyoming man with BIID who had his left leg amputated below the knee in 2009, and started the BIID support group, 鈥淔ighting It鈥�
Jessica Severin de Martinez, Khaleel Rahman, Meg Fitzgerald, Meg Dalton, and Catie Talarski contributed to this show, with help from our interns, Elizabeth Van Arnam and Melody Rivera.
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