Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements / Edition 1

by George C. Denniston, Frederick M. Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos

Overview

This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights. Authors are international experts in their fields, and the book contains the most up-to-date information on the issue of genital cutting of infants and children from medical, legal, bioethical, and human rights perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789400764064
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	06/04/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	337
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Preface

Tortured Bodies, Tortured Doctrines: Informed Consent as a Legal Fiction Inapplicable to Neonatal Male Circumcision
J. Steven Svoboda

Routine Infant Circumcision: Vital Issues Circumcision Proponents May Be Overlooking
Robert S. Van Howe

The Smart Penis
John R. Taylor

The Harm of Circumcision
George C. Denniston

Evolution of Circumcision Methods: Not "Just a Snip"
Hugh Young

Penile Wounding: The Spectrum of Complications of Routine Male Circumcision as Seen in a Typical American Family Medical Practice
Christopher Fletcher

Male Circumcision and the Potential for Unexplained Male Adolescent Suicide in Northern Ireland
Linda Massie

Healing the Harms of Circumcision: A Nursing Case Study
B. Maurene White

Ten Years of Training: Family Medicine Residents as Conscientious Objectors to Circumcision
Michelle R. Storms

Intersex Surgeries, Circumcision, and the Making of “Normal”
Elizabeth Reis

Intersex Genital Autonomy: A Rights-Based Framework for Medical Intervention with Intersex Infants
Paul Mason

The Sar/Rohan (The Possession): A Response of Somali Women To Pharaonic Circumcision/Infibulation (PhC)
Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Stefania Gazzea, and Antonio Iaria

Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group (South Africa)
Erika Dionisio and Franco Viviani

Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)
Erika Dionisio and Franco Viviani

Critique of African Circumcision and HIV RCTs, A Poster Presentation
Gregory J. Boyle

Randomized Controlled Trials for HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Men in Africa: Untraced Infections, Unasked Questions, and Unreported Data
David Gisselquist

Dangerous Myths and Tragic Misconceptions: Fighting HIV and AIDS Cases in Africa with Male Circumcision Strategies
Charles Geshekter

Defying the Enlightenment: Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Circumcision
Leonard B. Glick

Circumcision: Gender and Power
Miriam Pollack

Reclaiming Circumcision: Armenian Stories
Astrik Vardanyan

Self-made Intactivism in the Middle East
Hatem Kamal Saied

Genital Autonomy: A New Approach
David Smith

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

“The volume consists of 22 chapters … . This book is intended for medical professionals, researchers, students, and other professionals in diverse fields, including anthropology, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, public health, public policy, social work, and sociology. The organization and length of the book chapters make it easy for the intended audience. … This book is a useful primer or first step to a much-needed push for health education about male circumcision.” (Sussie Eshun and Irina Khusid, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (19), 2014)

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