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

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    • 1.Treatments are interventions that address health problems created by diagnosable diseases and disabilities (maladies)
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    • 2.Enhancements are interventions aimed at healthy systems and traits
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    • 3.Patients with normal growth hormone levels have no diagnosable growth hormone deficiency
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    • 1.The treatment/enhancement distinction presupposes a theory of species-typical functioning, but 'normal' growth hormone levels exist on a continuous biological spectrum without a principled cutoff point.
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    • 2.Norman Daniels' own framework in 'Just Health Care' grounds medical necessity in restoring species-typical functioning, yet statistical normality cannot itself define the threshold without circular reasoning.
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    • 3.If no non-arbitrary threshold distinguishes deficiency from normality, the categorical claim that a patient 'has no diagnosable malady' relies on a distinction that cannot bear the moral weight assigned to it.
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    • 1.Christopher Boorse's biostatistical theory of health defines disease as subnormal species-typical functioning, making the treatment/enhancement line contingent on population reference classes rather than intrinsic patient properties.
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    • 2.Reclassifying short stature as 'idiopathic short stature' by the FDA in 2003 demonstrates that diagnostic categories are partly socially constructed and subject to revision based on therapeutic availability rather than purely biological facts.
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    • 3.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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    Probably the most common rejoinder to the problem of prevention is to distinguish the problems to which they respond. Treatments are interventions that address the health problems created by diagnosable diseases and disabilities—“maladies” in the helpful language of Gert, Culver and Clouser (2006). Enhancements, on the other hand, are interventions aimed at healthy systems and traits. Thus, prescribing biosynthetic growth hormone to rectify a diagnosable growth hormone deficiency is legitimate t
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