Circumcision and Human Rights
Editors: Denniston, George, Hodges, Frederick, Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Eds.)
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- 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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"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.
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Delusional Psychologies of Circumcision and Civilization
Pages 1-14
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Reconsidering ‘Best Interests’
Pages 15-31
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Cultural Relativism at Home and Abroad
Pages 33-41
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Medical Interventions on Women's Genitals: Historical Texts and Contemporary Discourse
Pages 43-49
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1996 –2005 — Ten Years of Merka's Alternative Ritual in Somalia
Pages 51-61
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Circumcision and Human Rights
- Editors
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- George Denniston
- Frederick Hodges
- Marilyn Fayre Milos
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9167-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-9167-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-9166-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-90-481-8084-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXIII, 273
- Topics
