Genital Autonomy: Protecting Personal Choice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Denniston, George C. (Editor), Hodges, Frederick M. (Editor), Milos, Marilyn Fayre. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Mass media > Law and legislation.; Consciousness.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Media Law.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Public Health.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9446-9

Circumcision affects 15.3 million children and young adults annually. In terms of gender, 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are subjected to the involuntary removal of part or all of their external sexual organs every year. The problem of female circumcision has been addressed on an internationa...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• 1. Three-Fourths Were Abnormal
• 2. Older Minors and Circumcision: Questioning the Limits of Religious Actions
• 3. These Goalposts Dont Move  Non-Medical Circumcision of Boys in the Tasmanian and Australian Context
• 4. Mass Campaigns of Male Circumcision for HIV Control in Africa: Clinical Efficacy, Population Effectiveness, Political Issues
• 5. AIDS XVII, Mexico City: Reason for Hope or Panic?- 6. Circumcision Psychopathology
• 7. Physical Effects of Circumcision
• 8. Complications of Circumcision: A Urologists Viewpoint
• 9. NOCIRC of Italy: Scientific Activities 2006-2009
• 10. A Project about Male Circumcision in the Veneto
• 11. The First Survey on Genital Stretching in Italy
• 12. Knowledge and Opinions of North Italian Health Operators about Female Genital Mutilation
• 13. Stretching of the Labia Minora and Other Expansive Interventions of Female Genitals in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
• 14. Preventing Infibulation: Mana Sultan Abdurahman Isse at Merka, Somalia
• 15. Writing Rites Gone Wrong: Autobiography, Testimonials, and their Relevance to the Debate Around Genital Alterations
• 16. The Impact of Neonatal Circumcision: Implications for Doctors of Mens Experiences in Regressive Therapy
• 17. Circumcision Memory
• 18. Foreskin Restoration 1980-2008
• 19. Restoration: The Foreskin and the American Dream
• 20. Genital Autonomy: The Way Forward
• 21. Circumcision.