Genital Cutting : Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
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George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, editors.
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Springer
, c2013.
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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 statistics, and an appeal to "custom". Physicians and parents alike have been misled into believing that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary, and harmless. Today, flawed studies have allowed the pr…
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- International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights (11th : 2010 : University of California-Berkeley)
- Other Authors
- Denniston, George C
- Hodges, Frederick M
- Milos, Marilyn Fayre
- Responsibility
- George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, editors
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 337 p. : ill.)
- ISBN
- 9789400764071
- 9789400764064 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Child Advocacy
- Child Welfare
- Circumcision, Female
- Circumcision, Male
- Notes
- Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights, 29-31 July 2010, University of California-Berkeley.
- Abstract
- 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 statistics, and an appeal to "custom". Physicians and parents alike have been misled into believing that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary, and harmless. Today, flawed studies have allowed the promotion of circumcision as a way of combating HIV/AIDS in Africa, an experiment that failed in the USA, where a half-million circumcised males have succumbed to AIDS. These facts notwithstanding, the public and legal outcry against these abuses is increasing. For instance, the high court in Cologne, Germany ruled in 2012 that circumcision harms the child, that the harm is irreversible, that it denies the child the right to his own body, and that circumcision denies the individual the right to choose his own religion. Thus, the issue of circumcision has expanded beyond the arena of medicine and is firmly established as a human rights and legal problem. The contributors to this volume, an international panel of experts in the fields of medicine, law, ethics, anthropology, sociology, history, religion, and politics, thoroughly examine and elucidate this violation of human rights.
- Contents
- 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.
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Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine : Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41674
Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, Jessica S. Ancker, editors.
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Springer
, 2017.
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As health care is moving toward a team effort with patients as partners, this book provides guidance on the optimized use of health information and supporting technologies, and how people think and make decisions that affect their health and wellbeing. It focuses on investigations of how general public understand health information, assess risky behaviors, make healthcare decisions, and how they use health information technologies. e-health technologies have opened up new horizons for promoting…
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- Patel, Vimla L
- Arocha, Jose F
- Ancker, Jessica S
- Responsibility
- Vimla L. Patel, Jose F. Arocha, Jessica S. Ancker, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 383 pages) : 51 illus., 40 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Health informatics
- ISBN
- 9783319517322
- 9783319517315 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 1431-1917
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Behavioral Medicine - methods
- Health Behavior
- Medical Informatics
- Abstract
- As health care is moving toward a team effort with patients as partners, this book provides guidance on the optimized use of health information and supporting technologies, and how people think and make decisions that affect their health and wellbeing. It focuses on investigations of how general public understand health information, assess risky behaviors, make healthcare decisions, and how they use health information technologies. e-health technologies have opened up new horizons for promoting increased self-reliance in patients. Although information technologies are now in widespread use, there is often a disparity between the scientific and technological knowledge underlying health care practices and the cultural beliefs, mental models, and cognitive representations of illness and disease. Misconceptions based on inaccurate perceptions and mental models, and flawed prior beliefs could lead to miscommunication as well as to erroneous decisions about individuals' own health or the health of their family members. Cognitive Informatics in Health and Biomedicine: Understanding and Modeling Health Behaviors presents state of the art research in cognitive informatics for assessing the impact of patient behavior. It is designed to assist all involved at the intersection of the health care institution and the patient and covers contributions from recognized researchers and leaders in the field.
- Contents
- Section I. Introduction to the Role of Cognitive Issues in Health Behaviors and the Design of Interventions -- 1. Cognitive Informatics and Behavior Change in Health Care Domain -- 2. Design and Implementation of Behavioral Informatics Interventions -- Section II. Understanding Public Health Beliefs -- 3. Making Sense of Health Problems: Folk Cognition and Healthcare Decisions -- 4. Toward a Framework for Understanding Embodied Health Literacy -- 5. Models of Health Beliefs in South India: Impact on Managing Childhood Nutritional Illnesses -- Section III. Cognition and Health Behaviors -- 6. Health Information Literacy as a Tool for Addressing Adolescent Behaviors, Knowledge, Skills, and Academic Trajectories -- 7. Using Behavior Measurement to Estimate Cognitive Function based on Computational Models -- 8. The Slippery Slope of Sexual Decision-Making in Young Adults: The Role of Social and Cognitive Factors -- 9. Numeracy and Older Immigrants' Health: Exploring the Role of Language -- 10. Culturally Appropriate Behavioral Change in Maternal Health: Role of Mobile and Online Technologies Over Time -- Section IV. Information Technology and Cognitive Support -- 11. Addressing Health Literacy and Numeracy Through Systems Approaches -- 12. Aging, Cognition and Technology Systems -- 13. eHealth Literacy as a Mediator of Health Behaviors -- Section V. Behavioral Measures and Interventions -- 14. From Personal Informatics to Personal Analytics: Investigating How Clinicians and Experts Reason about Personal Data Generated with Self-Monitoring in Diabetes -- 15. Leveraging Social Media for Health Promotion and Behavior Change: Methods of Analysis and Opportunities for Intervention -- 16. Game Based Behavior Change Methods in Healthcare: The Case of Obesity -- Section VI. Future Directions -- 17. Cognitive Informatics and Health Behaviors: The Road Ahead.
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