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    Challenges→Prescribing biosynthetic growth hormone to patients with normal growth hormone levels is an enhancement, not legitimate medical treatment

    If diagnostic categories partially reflect social negotiation rather than mind-independent biological facts, then classifying an intervention as enhancement rather than treatment cannot ground a stable moral distinction.

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    Diagnostic categories(in psychology and medicine)
    Official labels or classifications that doctors or psychologists use to identify and name conditions or disorders.
    Social negotiation(as another source of justification for moral beliefs)
    The process of people discussing and reaching agreement on shared values and rules through conversation and compromise.
    enhancement(Includes positive genetic engineering; regarded as medically suspect because it lacks a malady-based justification)
    An intervention aimed at healthy systems and traits, where no diagnosable malady is present
    ground a stable moral distinction(as used in ethics)
    Provide a solid, reliable foundation for saying that two things are genuinely different in terms of right and wrong.
    mind-independent biological facts

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    (as used in metaphysics and philosophy of science)
    Physical truths about the body that exist and are real regardless of what anyone thinks or agrees about them—like the structure of DNA.
    treatment(Contrasted with enhancement; requires an identifiable malady to be justified as medically necessary)
    A medical intervention that addresses a diagnosable malady in a patient

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