Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements

Every year, across the globe, an estimated 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are involuntarily subjected to genital cutting. Both male and female genital cutting persist, generating a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry that is defended by its proponents with dubious studies, manipulated statis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Denniston, George C. (Editor ), Hodges, Frederick M. (Editor ), Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Temas:
Pediatrics.
Ethics.
Anthropology.
Children-Surgery.
Sociology.
Psychology.
Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics.
Pediatric Surgery.
Behavioral Sciences and Psychology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Tortured Bodies, Tortured Doctrines: Informed Consent as a Legal Fiction Inapplicable to Male Circumcision
  • Routine Infant Circumcision: Vital Issues Circumcision Proponents May Be Overlooking
  • The Smart Penis
  • The Harm of Circumcision
  • Evolution of Circumcision Methods: Not "Just a Snip"
  • Penile Wounding: The Spectrum of Complications of Routine Male Circumcision as Seen in a Typical American Family Medical Practice
  • Male Circumcision and the Potential for Unexplained Male Adolescent Suicide in Northern Ireland
  • Healing the Harms of Circumcision: A Nursing Case Study
  • Ten Years of Training: Family Medicine Residents as Conscientious Objectors to Circumcision
  • Intersex Surgeries, Circumcision, and the Making of "Normal"
  • Intersex Genital Autonomy: A Rights-Based Framework for Medical Intervention with Intersex Infants
  • The Sar/Rohan (The Possession): A Response of Somali Women To Pharaonic Circumcision/Infibulation (PhC)
  • Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group (South Africa)
  • Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)
  • Critique of African Circumcision and HIV RCTs, A Poster Presentation
  • Randomized Controlled Trials for HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Men in Africa: Untraced Infections, Unasked Questions, and Unreported Data
  • Dangerous Myths and Tragic Misconceptions: Fighting HIV and AIDS Cases in Africa with Male Circumcision Strategies
  • Defying the Enlightenment: Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Circumcision
  • Circumcision: Gender and Power
  • Reclaiming Circumcision: Armenian Stories
  • Self-made Intactivism in the Middle East
  • Genital Autonomy: A New Approach. .

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