%0 Journal Article
%T Intertwined Identities: Challenges to Bodily Autonomy
%A Gail Weiss
%J Perspectives : International Postgraduate Journal of Philosophy
%D 2009
%I 
%X Over the last decade, the international media has devoted increasing attention to operations that separate conjoined twins. Despite the fairly low odds that a child or adult will survive the operation with all of their vital organs intact, most people fail to question the urgency of being physically separated from one¡¯s identical twin. The drive to surgically tear asunder that which was originally joined, I suggest, is motivated in part by a refusal to acknowledge intercorporeality as a basic condition of human existence that doesn¡¯t undermine identity but makes it possible in the first place.
%K Conjoined twins
%K Identity
%K Intercorporealit
%K 
%K Autonomy
%K Surgery
%U http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/perspectives/resources/Gail_Weiss.pdf