Dev World Bioeth. 2017;17(2):134–140. Punishment of Minor Female Genital Ritual Procedures: Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good? Jacobs AJ, Arora KS ABSTRACT Female genital alteration (FGA) is any cutting, removal or destruction of any part of the external female genitalia. Various FGA practices are common throughout the world. While most frequent in AfricaContinue reading “Punishment of Minor Female Genital Ritual Procedures: Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good?”
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Virility, pleasure and female genital mutilation/cutting. A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of medicalized defibulation among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway.
Reprod Health. 2017 Feb 10;14(1):25. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0287-4. Virility, pleasure and female genital mutilation/cutting. A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of medicalized defibulation among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway. Johansen RE. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: The most pervasive form of female genital mutilation/cutting-infibulation-involves the almost complete closure of the vaginal orifice by cutting and closing the labia to createContinue reading “Virility, pleasure and female genital mutilation/cutting. A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of medicalized defibulation among Somali and Sudanese migrants in Norway.”
Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature.
Reprod Health. 2017 Mar 23;14(1):46. doi: 10.1186/s12978-017-0306-5. Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature. Doucet MH, Pallitto C, Groleau D. ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional harmful practice that can cause severe physical and psychological damages to girls and women. Increasingly, trained health-care providers carryContinue reading “Understanding the motivations of health-care providers in performing female genital mutilation: an integrative review of the literature.”
Female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone: who are the decision makers?
Afr J Reprod Health. 2012 Dec;16(4):119-31. Female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone: who are the decision makers? Bjälkander O, Leigh B, Harman G, Bergström S, Almroth L. Division of Global Health, Department of Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. owolabi.bjalkander@ki.se ABSTRACT The objectives of this study were to identify decision makers for FGM and determineContinue reading “Female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone: who are the decision makers?”
Bewley et al.: Female Genital Mutilation
BMJ. 2010 Jun 2;340:c2728. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2728. Female genital mutilation. Bewley S, Creighton S, Momoh C. Comment in BMJ. 2010; 341: c3888. SEE EXTRACT Paediatricians should resist its medicalisation Female genital mutilation is defined by the World Health Organization as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other injury to theContinue reading “Bewley et al.: Female Genital Mutilation”
A step forward for opponents of female genital mutilation in Egypt
Lancet. 1997 jan;349(9045)129 – 130 A step forward for opponents of female genital mutilation in Egypt Abd El Hadi A Preview In July, 1996, a decree by the Egyptian Minister of Health, Dr Ismail Sallam, prohibited physicians from performing female genital mutilation in private or public health facilities. Despite the decree’s short-comings, opponents of suchContinue reading “A step forward for opponents of female genital mutilation in Egypt”
Tackling female genital cutting in Somalia
Lancet. 2001 oct;358(9288):1179 Tackling female genital cutting in Somalia Ford N Preview Before the collapse of the Somali government in 1991, there was support for elimination of female gen- ital cutting; the practice was banned from hospitals and health research was conducted. But a decade of civil war put a stop to any attempts atContinue reading “Tackling female genital cutting in Somalia”
Correspondence: Female genital mutilation: why are we so radical?
Lancet. 2002 Feb;359:529-530 Correspondence: Female genital mutilation: why are we so radical? Valderrama J Preview The medicalisation of female genital mutilation should not be officially incorporated into any organisation’s policy, but provision of medical supplies for surgical procedures may save lives and suffering. Nathan Ford (Oct 6, p 1179)1 reports on female genital mutilation in Somalia. TheContinue reading “Correspondence: Female genital mutilation: why are we so radical?”
Nahid Toubia
Lancet. 2007 Mar;369(9564):819 Nahid Toubia Shetty P Preview If Nahid Toubia were a city, she would be New York—dynamic, intellectual, and humorous. Ironically though, Toubia herself isn’t the city’s biggest fan. Over lunch in central London, she says she prefers calm environments to counteract her ferocious inner energy. It was this drive that led Toubia,Continue reading “Nahid Toubia”
Special commentary on the issue of reinfibulation
International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 2010 May;109(2):97-99 Special commentary on the issue of reinfibulation Cook RJ, Dickens BM Faculty of Law, Faculty of Medicine and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada ABSTRACT Policy on reinfibulation exposes the interface between individual or micro-ethics and population-wide or macro-ethics. If, following childbirth, an infibulatedContinue reading “Special commentary on the issue of reinfibulation”
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