Medicalization*

Female genital mutilation in Upper Egypt in the new millennium

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 2011 July; 114(1):47-50 Female genital mutilation in Upper Egypt in the new millennium Rasheed SM, Abd-Ellah AH, Yousef FM Abstract Objective To estimate the influence of the 2007 criminalization law on the prevalence and yearly incidence of female genital mutilation(FGM) in Upper Egypt and assess the attitudes of both the population and their health providers towardContinue reading “Female genital mutilation in Upper Egypt in the new millennium”

Protecting girls and women from harmful practices affecting their health: Are we making progress?

Int J Gynecol Obstet. 2009;106(2):128–31. Protecting girls and women from harmful practices affecting their health: Are we making progress? Cottingham J, Kismodi E Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland Abstract Since female genital mutilation (FGM) was first recognized internationally in 1958, it has now become widely accepted and anchored in internationalContinue reading “Protecting girls and women from harmful practices affecting their health: Are we making progress?”

Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt

Med Anthropol Q. 2006 June; 20 (2): 182-211 Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt Yount KM, Carrera JS ABSTRACT In African populations practicing female genital cutting (FGC), beliefs exist that these procedures enhance reproduction and that their medicalization may diminish adverse effects, yet available findings are mixed in part for methodological reasons. We useContinue reading “Female Genital Cutting and Reproductive Experience in Minya, Egypt”

“Taming tradition”: medicalized female genital practices in western Kenya.

Med Anthropol Q. 2005 Dec;19(4):402-18. “Taming tradition”: medicalized female genital practices in western Kenya. Christoffersen-Deb A. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford. ABSTRACT This article considers the question of female genital practices at the hands of health workers in western Kenya. Recent articles in Medical Anthropology Quarterly have critically engaged with theContinue reading ““Taming tradition”: medicalized female genital practices in western Kenya.”