Overview
- Provides the latest information on the topics of male and female circumcision
- Reveals how male and female circumcision violates law and ethics
- Exposes the harmful effects of male and female genital cutting and female genital modification
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About this book
“There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don’t exist”, said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for “no good reason”.
In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and in the Muslim world, 13.3 million infant boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off for reasons that defy logic and violate basic human rights. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that circumcision is beneficial, necessary, and harmless.
In Circumcision and human rights, internationally respected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history, and religion present the latest research on this tragedy, as a part of the worldwide campaign to end sexual mutilation. They outline steps for eradicating this abusive practice to enable males and females the dignity of living out their lives with all the body parts with which they were born.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Circumcision and Human Rights
Editors: George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Fayre Milos
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9167-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9166-7Published: 30 January 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8084-4Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-9167-4Published: 23 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 273
Topics: Biomedicine general, Medicine/Public Health, general, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Medical Law