Female genital mutilation:whose problem, whose solution? Psychological damage is immense [4]

British Medical Journal

Volumn 333, Issue 7561, 2006, Pages 260-

  Menage, Janet ^a  

^a Bulkington Surgery   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN RELATION; LETTER; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; PAIN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RAPE; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUAL CRIME; STRESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; NOTE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MENTAL DISORDERS;

EID: 33747166743     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. Conroy RM. Female genital mutilation: whose problem, whose solution? BMJ 2006;333:106-7. (15 July.)
2. Menage J. Traumatic stress disorder in women who have undergone obstetric and/or gynaecological procedures. J Reprod Infant Psychol 1993;11:221-8.
3. Duddle M. Emotional sequelae of sexual assault. J Roy Soc Med 1991;84:26-8.
4. World Health Organization. Female genital mutilation, report of a WHO technical working group. Geneva, 1996:10.
5. Denniston GC, Hodges FM, Milos MF, eds. Male and female circumcision: medical, legal and ethical considerations in paediatric practice. New York: Kluwer Academic. Plenum, 1999.