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Female Genital Mutilation [PDF]
THE PROBLEM OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (FGM) INSPIRED NEARLY 100 medical students from 3 continents to submit their work for the 2002 John Conley Ethics Essay Contest for Medical Students. Essayists discussed ethical issues that would arise if an 18-year-old woman requested thatasurgeonintheUnitedStatesperformFGMonherbeforeshereturned home to Africa,
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Female genital mutilation in Britain [PDF]
Much has been written about female genital mutilation in Africa, but little attention has been paid to its existence in Britain. Though it has been illegal in this country since 1985, it is practised secretly or children are sent abroad to have the operation.
J A, Black, G D, Debelle
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Geography and correlates of attitude toward Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan : what can we learn from successive Sudan opinion poll data? [PDF]
Investigates geographic variations of attitude shifts toward eradication of female genital mutilation (FGM) and a wide range of potential correlates toward the continuation of FGM, using the 2014 Department for International Development (DFID) Sudan ...
Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin +3 more
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Background Female genital mutilation comprises all procedures involving the partial or total removal of female external genitalia or other injury to the female external organs, whether for religious, cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.
Tafese Dejene Jidha, Abdi Kebede Feyissa
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Factors associated with female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso and its policy implications [PDF]
Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) usually undertaken between the ages of 1-9 years and is widely practised in some part of Africa and by migrants from African countries in other parts of the world.
Karmaker, Bue +10 more
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Female genital mutilation includes procedures which remove or cause injury to some or all women’s external genital organs. There are a lot of medical risks involved - nevertheless, in some societies it is mainstream practice, carried out mostly on girls ...
Karolina Wiśniowska
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Defibulation can recall the trauma of female genital mutilation/cutting: a case report
Background Women with female genital mutilation/cutting are known to have psychological sequelae from the cutting and other traumatic experiences. However, very few studies report immediate psychological sequelae of genital reconstructive surgery in this
Gianmarco Taraschi +3 more
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مشکلات المتزوجات التى تعرضن للختان وتأثيرها على تقدير الذات لديهن [PDF]
ملخص الدراسة: تهدف الدراسة إلى توضيح مشکلات المتزوجات التى تعرضن للختان وتأثيرها على تقدير الذات لديهن، و توضيح العلاقة بين المشکلات النفسية والاجتماعية لختان الإناث وتقدير الذات لديهن، وتوضيح العلاقة بين المشکلات الثقافية لختان الإناث وتقدير الذات ...
دعاء جاد عبد المجيد عصر
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Female genital mutilation and the Swiss health care system [PDF]
World-wide, more than 120 million girls and women are estimated to have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), and each year 2 million more are subjected to these practices in the name of traditional culture.
Thierfelder, Clara
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This paper addresses the issue of the human rights, their acknowledgment in different contexts and the specific issue of the female genital mutilation, decodified under the lens of tradition and that of universal human rights. The method is that of juridical comparation under a diachronic and synchronic lens, with an analysis of the evolution of the ...
Hazel I. Learner, Deborah Hodes
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