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    This blog is the combined effort of a team of researchers and community members working around the world in different disciplines to address concerns around human variation, normalcy, and enhancement. This blog is a place for academics, community members and individuals alike to connect, find information and discuss issues related to the What Sorts? project.
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      • About How We Talk About Autism
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      • Rethinking “Conceptions of the Good” in Light of Intellectual Disability: What’s dependence got to do with it?
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      • New Version of the Moral Sense Test, Designed Especially for Philosophers
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      • Undoing the binary of cognitive ability and cognitive disability
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      • One in 1,000 children may become subjected to growth attenuation
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      • “‘The Ashley Treatment’ is against physicians’ moral duty to themselves,” says Naomi Tan
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July 2, 2008 — wolbring

Peer reviewed article
Is There an End to Out-Able? Is There an End to the Rat Race for Abilities? -
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From morphological freedom to morphological judgment
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