Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Denniston, George C. (Editor), Hodges, Frederick M. (Editor), Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Commercial law.; Mass media.; Law.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Public Health.; Commercial Law.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Media Law.

Circumcision affects 15.3 million children and young adults annually. In terms of gender, 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are subjected to the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sexual organs every year. The problem of female circumcision has been addressed on an internationa...