When Ms. Lewis was 7 her ears were surgically altered to make them less prominent.
If ultra-violent Alex de Large is surgically altered to make him docile, is he still human?
The last castrato died in 1922, the last man we know to have been surgically altered to keep his voice from changing.
In fact, the individuals who end up most damaged are those who are surgically altered, without their permission, to suit someone else's agenda".
In 1976 he won his first Nebula Award, given by the group now known as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, for "Man Plus," about an astronaut whose body is surgically altered for life on Mars.
In "Driftglass" (1966), a crippled "amphiman," who has been surgically altered to breathe underwater, muses about the conflicting impulses that drive people like him to risk so much in pursuit of knowledge and power.
The moving story, chronicled in John Colapinto's book "As Nature Made Him," of David Reimer, who as an infant was surgically altered after a botched circumcision to become a girl, suggests how long-lasting the effect of fetal testosterone can be.
The main focus of this paper is to address the recognition problems that arise from conditions where the face is surgically altered.
The team's latest investigation began with an analysis of proteins contained in heart tissue samples collected from a group of dogs whose hearts had been surgically altered to beat irregularly, become stressed and fail.
If asked whether a dog that is surgically altered to look like a raccoon is a dog or a raccoon, the answer for most of us, and even for children, is that it is remains a dog (see Keil 1989, Gelman 2003 for discussion).
When food transit is surgically altered, changes in the pattern of gastrointestinal hormone release may support the early adaptation of β-cell function but are unlikely to make a major contribution to insulin action.
