Article
Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework
2015-10-01
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Abstract: The non-therapeutic alteration of children’s genitals is typically discussed in two separate ethical discourses: one for girls, in which such alteration is conventionally referred to as “female genital mutilation” (or FGM), and one for boys, in which it is conventionally referred to as “male circumcision.” The former is typically regarded as objectionable or even barbaric; the latter, benign or beneficia...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d9b807f3-f87d-50c5-839a-84ce8b7f50fc
- DOI
- 10.2147/mb.s63709