Forced Migration Review (May 2015)

The medicalisation of female genital mutilation

  • Pierre Foldes ,
  • Frédérique Martz

Journal volume & issue
no. 49
pp. 82 – 82

Abstract

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The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical profession.

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