TY - JOUR T1 - Harris, harmed states, and sexed bodies JF - Journal of Medical Ethics JO - J Med Ethics SP - 276 LP - 279 DO - 10.1136/jme.2010.039982 VL - 37 IS - 5 AU - Robert Sparrow Y1 - 2011/05/01 UR - http://jme.bmj.com/content/37/5/276.abstract N2 - 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. ER -