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41. For survivors and their doctors: An online tool about female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... was medicalization, perhaps even providing clean blades. Karen knew that it still didn’t seem right and didn’t feel comfortable with the idea. The blade may be cleaner, but the potential health issues ...
Created on 02 May 2019
42. The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... Human Rights Committee have been active in condemning FGM. Medicalisation goes against the principles enshrined in these treaties and conventions. The disturbing medicalization trend continues to argue ...
Created on 05 March 2019
43. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... supporting legalization of the practice are also presented, as it arguably promotes medicalization as well as cultural preservation. The non-alienation of the community and the need for complementing legal ...
Created on 19 February 2019
44. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(News & Blog)
... is not the same as genital mutilation. Various leaders stated to parliament that they support the medicalization of the practice, but to prohibit the practice would be an infringement on their religious ...
Created on 16 January 2019
45. Medical organisations in five African nations issue statement against the medicalisation of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... to end medicalization of FGC by various organizations and discussions and suggestions drawn at the meeting to reduce it will also play a role model for other countries to incorporate such programs in their ...
Created on 20 November 2017
46. Speaking out about Female Genital Cutting among Malays in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... on what a woman can and cannot do with her body. For women in the Malay community, this imposition of power begins at infancy.   The medicalization of sunat perempuan makes it even harder to eradicate ...
Created on 12 August 2016
47. Sahiyo welcomes the new WHO guidelines to improve care for millions living with female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... great aspect touched upon by the guidelines is so called “medicalization” of the practice of FGC – parents asking medical doctors to perform genital cutting because they think it will be less harmful. ...
Created on 18 May 2016
48. FAQs
(Uncategorised)
... et al., 2005; Johansen, 2006a)   Some medical professionals, nongovernmental organizations, government officials and others consider medicalization as a harm-reduction strategy and support the notion ...
Created on 11 January 2016
49. Medicalization
(Tags)
Medicalization
Created on 23 June 2021
50. A reflection on the medical perspectives on female genital cutting (FGC) webinar
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
... virtual event to bring more attention to the medical impact and medicalization of FGC.  Saza Faradilla, co-founder of End FGC Singapore and facilitator of the event, introduced the historical background ...
Created on 18 October 2021
51. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
by Aarefa Johari and Aysha Mahmood (Read the Malayalam version of this report here.)  The practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in India has so far been associated only with the Dawoodi Bohra community ...
Created on 14 August 2017
52. Here’s what a new study says about female genital cutting in Malaysia
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
... be performed. However, the authors suggest that children as young as 2 months old undergo FGC in Malaysia. Medicalization of the practice: In general, older participants had FGC performed on them ...
Created on 30 May 2019
53. How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journe
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
By A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD Country of Residence: United States Renee chronicles her experiences with American physicians from the time she was cut at three years of age until seventy years later when ...
Created on 26 February 2019
54. I wonder if I would have been a different person if I hadn't been cu
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
by Anonymous Age: 26 Country: India / United States I was about 6 years old when I was taken to a clinic. One doctor and one nurse conducted the “surgery”. It took less than a minute to do it. I ...
Created on 03 December 2016
55. Introducing the Speakers for ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
... high medicalization of the practice, in close collaboration mid-wives, nurses, and gynecologists. She hopes that FGM will disappear in Indonesia during this generation and before 2030.   Dr. Nozer ...
Created on 14 January 2022
56. Let us not vilify the Detroit doctor as we work to end Female Genital Cutting
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
By: Anonymous Country: United States Age: 34 Shortly after my seventh birthday, I went to visit my grandmother in New York. My mother told me this visit was going to be special because I turned seven ...
Created on 24 April 2017
57. Medical organisations in five African nations issue statement against the medicalisation of FGM/C
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
... to end medicalization of FGC by various organizations and discussions and suggestions drawn at the meeting to reduce it will also play a role model for other countries to incorporate such programs in their ...
Created on 20 November 2017
58. Mutilation or enhancement: A researcher’s argument for respectful terminology on genital cutting
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
By Brian D. Earp I have published several papers on the ethics of medically unnecessary genital cutting practices affecting children of all sexes and genders. When my writing touches on the sub-set ...
Created on 14 September 2021
59. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
By Fatema Kakal (This is Part II in a series about female genital cutting within the Bohra community. Read Part I here.) While religion and religious leaders, along with culture and tradition can be ...
Created on 23 June 2020
60. Population Council hosts webinar to discuss ending female genital cutting
(Article tagged with: Medicalization)
... could be a result of the increasing medicalization of FGM/C in Egypt. Another interesting finding was that if either one of the parents, whether it be the mother or the father, does not want their daughter ...
Created on 25 August 2020