Are you truly the owner of your own body, or merely its custodian on behalf of society?

Body Integrity Dysphoria and the Ethical Demand for On-Demand Amputation is a groundbreaking examination of autonomy, dignity, and bodily self-determination at the limits of modern medicine. Drawing on original fieldwork and medical interviews, the book interrogates the moral implications of BID’s classification in ICD-11, the contested legitimacy of elective amputation, and the unstable boundary between health, impairment, and identity.

By placing BID at the centre of contemporary debates on medical authority and human rights, the book challenges prevailing assumptions about what it means to have a body—and who is ultimately entitled to decide its fate.