Roundtable: "You Can Also Cut My Finger!": Social Construction of Male Circumcision in West Africa, A Case Study of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 22-32

  Niang, Cheikh Ibrahima ^a   Boiro, Hamadou ^b  

^a University of Bordeaux ^*

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CIRCUMCISION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY RELATION; GUINEA-BISSAU; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; RITUAL; SELF CONTROL; SENEGAL; SEXUAL EDUCATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL APPROACH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; MALE; SOCIOLOGY;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GUINEA-BISSAU; HETEROSEXUALITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; RELIGION; SENEGAL; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 34248374232     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29312-7     Document Type: Note

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