PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Robert Sparrow TI - Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies AID - 10.1136/jme.2010.039982 DP - 2011 May 01 TA - Journal of Medical Ethics PG - 276--279 VI - 37 IP - 5 4099 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/37/5/276.short 4100 - http://jme.bmj.com/content/37/5/276.full SO - J Med Ethics2011 May 01; 37 AB - This paper criticises John Harris's attempts to defend an account of a ‘harmed condition’ that can stand independently of intuitions about what is ‘normal’. I argue that because Homo sapiens is a sexually dimorphic species, determining whether a particular individual is in a harmed condition or not will sometimes require making reference to the normal capacities of their sex. Consequently, Harris's account is unable to play the role he intends for it in debates about the ethics of human enhancement.