Female “circumcision”: African women confront American medicine.

J Gen Intern Med. 1997 Aug;12(8):491-9. Female “circumcision”: African women confront American medicine. Horowitz CR, Jackson JC. Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY 10029, USA. The practice of female “circumcision,” or traditional female genital surgery, is simultaneously complex and controversial. Although some consider it a human rights infringement, others viewContinue reading “Female “circumcision”: African women confront American medicine.”