Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements
Every year, across the globe, an estimated 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls are involuntarily subjected to genital cutting. Both male and female genital cutting persist, generating a multi-billion-dollar-a-year industry that is defended by its proponents with dubious studies, manipulated statistics, and an appeal to custom. Physicians and parents alike have been misled into believing that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary, and harmless. Today, flawed studies have allowed the promotion of circumcision as a way of combating HIV/AIDS in Africa, an experiment that failed in the USA, where a half-million circumcised males have succu…
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Weitere Autoren: Hodges, Frederick M. (Hrsg.) / Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-94-007-6407-1
- EAN: 9789400764071
- Produktnummer: 16491183
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 337 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'752 KB
- Auflage: 2013
- Abbildungen: 7 schwarz-weiße und 25 farbige Abbildungen, 19 schwarz-weiße und 9 farbige Tabellen, Bibliographie
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