ISBN:
9789400764071
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XII, 337 p. 32 illus., 25 illus. in color, digital)
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Genital cutting
Keywords:
Medicine
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Ethics
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Pediatrics
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Surgery
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Anthropology
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Philosophy (General)
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Medicine & Public Health
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Medicine
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Ethics
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Pediatrics
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Surgery
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Anthropology
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Philosophy (General)
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Circumcision, Female
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Circumcision, Male
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Child Welfare
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Child Advocacy
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Congresses
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Beschneidung
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Menschenrecht
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Beschneidung
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Menschenrecht
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 succumbed to AIDS. These facts notwithstanding, the public and legal outcry against these abuses is increasing. For instance, the high court in Cologne, Germany ruled in 2012 that circumcision harms the child, that the harm is irreversible, that it denies the child the right to his own body, and that circumcision denies the individual the right to choose his own religion. Thus, the issue of circumcision has expanded beyond the arena of medicine and is firmly established as a human rights and legal problem. The contributors to this volume, an international panel of experts in the fields of medicine, law, ethics, anthropology, sociology, history, religion, and politics, thoroughly examine and elucidate this violation of human rights
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Contents; 1 Tortured Bodies, Tortured Doctrines: Informed Consent as a Legal Fiction Inapplicable to Neonatal Male Circumcision; Abstract ; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 Changes in Doctor-Patient Relationship Usher in Informed Consent; 1.1.2 Birth and Development of Informed Consent in Court Cases; 1.2 How Informed Consent Plays Out with Competent Adults; 1.2.1 Disclosure; Materiality; The Importance of Alternatives; 1.2.2 Voluntariness; Timing, Manner, Order; 1.2.3 CompetenceCapacity; 1.2.4 Understanding: The Forgotten Element; 1.2.5 Exceptions to Informed Consent with Competent Adults
Description / Table of Contents:
1.2.6 Problems with Informed Consent for Competent Adults1.2.7 Informed Consent and Non-therapeutic or Elective Surgery on Competent Adults; 1.3 Substituted Judgment for Incompetent Adults; 1.3.1 Problems with Substituted Judgment for Incompetent Adults; 1.4 Proxy Permission for Never Competent Children; 1.4.1 Parent and Physician Duties in Proxy Permission for Never Competent Children; 1.5 Proxy Permission for Neonatal Circumcision on Never Competent Baby Boys; 1.5.1 Background of Proxy Permission for Neonatal Circumcision
Description / Table of Contents:
1.5.2 Medicalization Helps Justify and Perpetuate Neonatal Circumcision1.5.3 Disclosure: Circumcision; Materiality: Neonatal Circumcision; Importance of Alternatives: Circumcision; 1.5.4 Voluntariness: Neonatal Circumcision; Timing, Manner, Order: Neonatal Circumcision; 1.5.5 CompetenceCapacity of Proxy Agents: Neonatal Circumcision; 1.5.6 Understanding: The Forgotten Element Neonatal Circumcision; 1.5.7 Proxy Consent to Neonatal Circumcision: Conceptual Problems; 1.5.8 Proxy Consent to Neonatal Circumcision: Ethical Problems
Description / Table of Contents:
1.5.9 Proxy Consent to Neonatal Circumcision: Practical Problems and Considerations1.5.10 Proxy Consent to Neonatal Circumcision as a Non-therapeutic, Elective Procedure; 1.6 Conclusion; References; 2 Routine Infant Circumcision: Vital Issues that the Circumcision Proponents may be Overlooking; Abstract ; 2.1 Bioethics and Human Rights; 2.2 Foreskin Function; 2.3 Harms and Risks; 2.4 Medical Issues; 2.5 Penile Problems; 2.6 Cancer; 2.6.1 Sexually Transmitted Infections; 2.7 Conclusion; References; 3 The Smart Penis; Abstract ; 3.1 The Smart Penis; References; 4 The Harm of Circumcision
Description / Table of Contents:
Abstract 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Consequences of Circumcision; 4.3 Physical Consequences; 4.4 Psychological Consequences; 4.5 Cultural Consequences; References; 5 Evolution of Circumcision Methods: Not "Just a Snip"; Abstract ; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 History; 5.2.1 Circumcision Forceps; 5.2.2 Harris Clamp; 5.3 Disposable Devices; 5.4 Summary of Methods; 5.5 Instruments and Fetishism; References; 6 Penile Wounding: Complications of Routine Male Circumcision in a Typical American Family Practice; Abstract ; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Background; 6.3 Observations and Measurements; 6.4 Demographics
Description / Table of Contents:
6.4.1 Age, Height, and Weight
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1
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