Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Rianne M. Blom; Raoul C. Hennekam; Damiaan Denys

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034702

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Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Rianne M. Blom,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Raoul C. Hennekam,

Affiliation Departments of Paediatrics and Translational Genetics, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Damiaan Denys

* E-mail: ddenys@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, an institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Rianne M. Blom,
Raoul C. Hennekam,
Damiaan Denys

Published: April 13, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034702

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Who should pay for costs associated with choosing to not have two perfectly healthy legs?

Posted by Noelle24 on 22 Feb 2021 at 03:25 GMT

"Amputation of the healthy body part appears to result in remission of BIID and an impressive improvement of quality of life. Knowledge of and respect for the desires of BIID individuals are the first steps in providing care and may decrease the huge burden they experience." And who do the authors suggest bear the financial burdens associated with the amputation of, say a perfectly healthy leg?

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Who should pay for costs associated with choosing to not have two perfectly healthy legs?

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