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Determinants of Decision Making for Circumcision

open access: yes, 1996
Our experience indicates that some healthcare providers have personal biases about circumcision. We question whether these personal convictions influence the information disseminated to parents during the process of informed consent.
Ciesielski-Carlucci, Chris   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Beyond Brunhild: reassessing women in the Fredegar Chronicle

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 458-479, August 2026.
Scholarly consideration of women in the seventh‐century Fredegar chronicle has long been dominated by the author’s hostility towards Brunhild, queen of Austrasia. Statistical analysis of Latin world chronicles before ad 900, however, shows that Fredegar’s representation of women was unusually high within this tradition.
Emily Quigley
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment of circumcision complications in a Tertiary Institution in Tanzania

open access: yesThe Annals of African Surgery, 2012
Background and objective: Male circumcision is a minor surgical proce-dure that can have both physical and psychological complications. The aim of this study was to review the pattern of presentation of circumci-sion complications and to highlight on ...
Nyamsogoro R, Mteta A,
doaj  

Secondary phimosis after circumcision

open access: yesUrology Research and Practice, 2019
Objective: Male circumcision is one of the most common surgical procedures worldwide. Although it is widely performed because of health issues, in Muslim-majority countries, the primary motivation yielding to male circumcision is religious.
Tunç Özdemir   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 435-457, August 2026.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

Voluntary medical male circumcision versus religio-cultural circumcision and initiation rites: The case of Varemba of Mwenezi district in response to the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in Zimbabwe

open access: yesTheologia Viatorum, 2019
Male circumcision has long been associated with religious or cultural rituals which bestow culturally valuable status. In some communities, circumcision is believed to provide concomitant access to economic and spiritual resources such as land and the ...
Onias Matumbu, Vengesai Chimininge
doaj   +1 more source

Seventh Åland Island Meeting on von Willebrand Disease

open access: yesHaemophilia, Volume 32, Issue S3, Page S3-S25, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Introduction The seventh Åland Island Meeting on von Willebrand Disease (VWD) was held on the Åland archipelago in Finland, from 26 to 28 September 2024. Aim The meeting brought together experts in the field of VWD from around the world to share the latest advances and knowledge in VWD.
Riitta Lassila   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional male circumcision remains a dangerous business

open access: yes, 2015
Male circumcision using traditional methods is a dangerous, even life-threatening, rite of passage. In presumably the first study to test the feasibility of an intervention for safe traditional circumcision among the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, the ...
Peltzer, K.
core   +2 more sources

Data triangulation to estimate age-specific coverage of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention in four Kenyan counties.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Kenya is 1 of 14 priority countries in Africa scaling up voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) for HIV prevention following the recommendations of the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. To inform
Katharine Kripke   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Policy shortcomings affecting traditional male circumcision (TMC) in the Eastern Cape Province

open access: yesSocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2019
The study took the form of a qualitative empirical case study in order to carry out a critical analysis of the shortcomings of existing policy pertaining to traditional male circumcision (TMC) in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
Nomngcoyiya, Thanduxolo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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