Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision : Culture, Controversy, and Change
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28948
edited by George C. Denniston, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Franco Viviani.
--New York:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2006.
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- Online
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- Author
- Denniston, George C
- Responsibility
- edited by George C. Denniston, Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Franco Viviani
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2006
- ISBN
- 9781402049163
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Body Image
- Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic - ethics
- Circumcision, Female
- Circumcision, Male
- Bioethical Issues
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Medical ethics
- Social sciences
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- e-Book
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- Online
Female Genital Mutilation Around The World : Analysis of Medical Aspects, Law and Practice
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43397
Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Paul Nzinga Komba.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This book uses global household data to examine the prevalence, trends and geographic variation of female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world. It also addresses the underlying legal and policy aspects as well as explores the medical consequences, both immediate and long term, for those undergoing the practice. The book analyses the position of victims of this gender-based violence both from the medical and legal perspective and adopts a largely practical approach to the study of the pract…
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- Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin
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- Komba, Paul Nzinga
- Responsibility
- Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Paul Nzinga Komba
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 226 p.) : 28 illus., 21 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319780078
- 9783319780054 (print ed.)
- 9783319780061 (print ed.)
- Specialty
- Sociology, Medical
- Women's Health
- Abstract
- This book uses global household data to examine the prevalence, trends and geographic variation of female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world. It also addresses the underlying legal and policy aspects as well as explores the medical consequences, both immediate and long term, for those undergoing the practice. The book analyses the position of victims of this gender-based violence both from the medical and legal perspective and adopts a largely practical approach to the study of the practices, offering a fresh thinking into one of the challenges in global health and the law. In addition, it offers some insights into how health professionals can approach this category of victims and how legal practitioners can obtain a good legal result for their clients before domestic and international forums. The book addresses fundamental issues such as state liability and defences in enforcement proceedings for actions or omission of state or non-state actors, and due diligence standard in international human rights law, the main gateways available for obtaining relief for the victims of FGM. This book goes beyond the traditional debate between zero tolerance and those who wish to see the practice medicalised and tolerated and favours an advocacy programme standing firmly in favour of the right of FGM victims. This book offers a unique perspective likely to assist victims and their representatives to secure a remedy against perpetrators and the state. As such this book will be of interest to medical professionals, national and international lawyers, academics and policymakers in the field of public health.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Global Review of Evidence on FGM -- 3. Mapping and Modelling of the FGM Prevalence -- 4. Health Consequences of FGM/C -- 5. Clinical Remedial Interventions and Care for FGM Victims -- 6. Analysis of Laws in Selected Countries Around the World -- 7. Laws and Remedies in Europe -- 8. Laws in North America -- 9. Laws in Asia and the Pacific Rim -- 10. Compatibility Between National FGMs and International Human Rights Law -- 11. Analysis of International and Regional Legal Regime Applicable to FGM victims -- 12. Litigation and Remedies for the victims -- 13. Enforceability of Decisions Rendered against the State.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Genital Cutting : Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40850
George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos, editors.
--Dordrecht:
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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- e-Book
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