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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Denniston, George C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Hodges, Frederick M. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Ethics.; Pediatrics.; Pediatric surgery.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Psychology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pediatric Surgery.; Sociology, general.; Psychology, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .