男児と女児になった結合双生児3
Lin&Winについて、 THESMANEWS というところにも、記載発見。このサイト、Singapore Medical Association(シンガポール医療協会)というところが出しているもののようである。そのサイトが出しているニュースのひとつ。医療とメディアの関係について、Mr Leslie FongというThe Straits Timesの新聞の編集者がセミナーで話をしたとき、Lin&Winの報道がネタになったようだ。それが以下の内容。日本語訳は明日以降に。Patient privacyConsider the case of Htut Lin and Htut Win, conjoined twins who underwent separation at two-and-a-half years of age in Toronto in 1984. In an exclusive story entitled "Severing the Siamese Twins – from one life to two" LIFE Magazine showed pre-operative, intra-operative and post-operative photographs with no attempt to protect privacy. The surgical procedures involved intestinal, pelvic and genital separation and reconstruction."After consultation by phone with the parents…, the doctors agreed that Lin, the livelier and more aggressive (albeit smaller) of the two, should keep the male genitals. His sexuality is expected to be fully functional. During the surgery, the team constructed a vagina for Win from a tube-like section of the colon."It might have been intended as a heart-warming story, but such "full disclosure" publicity on the children did not take into account how they might possibly, in later life, feel about the way their sex was assigned, or the fact that anyone can scan the back issues of LIFE on CD-ROM for detailed accounts of their genital re-constructions.Whether it is separated Siamese twins, or test-tube babies, or HIV-positive blood donors, doctors often feel queasy about media reports that disclose the names of patients or bare to the world details of their medical conditions.