Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-7225-2 (ISBN)
Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision: Culture, Controversy, and Change illuminates the vulnerability of human society to medical, economic, and historical pressures. It provides a much-needed, thoughtful, and detailed analysis of the devastating impact of circumcision on bodily integrity and human rights, and it provides hope for change.
Circumcision as a Memeplex.- The Life of the Flesh is in the Blood: The Meaning of Bloodshed in Ritual Circumcision.- Zipporah and the Bridegroom of Blood: Searching for the Antecedents of Jewish Circumcision.- At the Roots of Ethnic Female Genital Modification: Preliminary Report.- Psycholinguistic Approaches to Ritual Labia Minora Elongation Among the Baganda Women of Uganda.- Graphic Reproduction of Genital Stretching in a Group of Baganda Girls: Their Psychological Experiences.- Survey on the East-African Female Students at the University of Padua.- Female Genital Mutilation Among African Immigrants in Greece: The First Cognitive Study.- Deinfibulation in Italy.- Research Center for Preventing and Curing FGM and Its Complications.- Preliminary Research Into the Psycho-Sexual Aspects of the Operation of Defibulation.- Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: The Work of the Women's Rights Organization Terre des Femmes and the Situation in Germany.- Male Circumcision in Italy.- Genital Integrity and Gender Equity.- Increasing Awareness of Iatrogenic Damage Consequent to Male Circumcision.- A Survey of Subjective Foreskin Sensation in 600 Intact Men.- Human Rights Advances in the United States.- Toward Regulation of Non-Therapeutic Genital Surgeries Upon Minors: A Preliminary Legal Strategy.- Strategies for Litigation.- Of Waste and Want: A Nationwide Survey of Medicaid Funding for Medically Unnecessary, Non-Therapeutic Circumcision.- A Campaign for the Eradication of Infibulation Within an Extended Family: Khartoum, Sudan.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.10.2010 |
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Zusatzinfo | XVIII, 270 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 160 x 240 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie | |
Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 90-481-7225-X / 904817225X |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-481-7225-2 / 9789048172252 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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