Rose discusses how our present m oral considerations of medical intervention and prescription of debilitating or obtrustive conditions or characteristics revolves around that of 'bodily optimization', which itself is addressed by issues of susceptibility and enhancement. The optimization of a set group of humans is reached by tweaking these two categories of susceptibility and enhancement as a variable of medical ambition of technology and practice.
This is not a useful framework when identity theory is introduced into the conversation. As time progresses, the human condition will absorb new identifications and constituent ideas of how our species exists. Empirically speaking, it is a stretch to argue that physical evidence exists when measuring immaterial standards of human existence: emotion, mood, mentality, etc.
Who is not to say that the individual whose view of his true self is a human body with three limbs -- or nine digits, or no hair, or implanted horns on his forehad -- is not a matter of enhancement that secures his mental stability, and in turn his functioning within the group? I recall the Professor's (Robin) friend with Tourrettes syndrome who performs incredibly delicate and complex surgeries. Is it right to limit his self expression, even if it costs our city and medical community one dedicated and talented surgeon?
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