The Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations convened at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland on August 9-11, 1996.
Proceedings
- Jehovah, His Cousin Allah, and Sexual Mutilations
- The Wound Reveals the Cure
- Lawsuits in the News (a panel discussion)
- The Geography of Male and Female Genital Mutilations
- Circumcision: An Iatrogenic Epidemic
- Diers, Didier and Xavier Valla
- Skoptzy: The Russian Sect of the Castrated
- The Nurses of St. Vincent: Saying “No” To Circumcision
- Gallo, P. G., F. Vivani, M. Livio, R. Corsaro, F. De Cordova, G. Fortunato, S. Beccaccini, S. Hassan
- Epidemiological Surveys on Female Genital Mutilation in Italy
- Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective
- Male Sexual Mutilation: Revealing the Harm, Healing the Wounds
- Review of the Australian College of Paediatrics Position Paper on “Neonatal Male Circumcision”
- Similarities in Attitudes and Misconceptions Toward Infant Male Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation
- Fire Eyes: a Documentary Film
- Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: An Update from (I)NTACT
- Learned Helplessness: A Concept of the Future
- Defining what is Sacred
- Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: a Petition to the World Court, The Hague
- Female Genital Mutilation
- It’s a Boy! – a Documentary Film
- Sperlich, Betty, R.N., and Mary Conant, R.N.
- Nurses for the Rights of the Child: An Update
- Rainbo, Female Genital Mutilation in the U.S. and Help For Its Victims
- Does Circumcision Persist in the U.S.?
- NORM UK and the Medical Case Against Circumcision: A British Perspective
- NOCIRC of Australia
- Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male and Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom
- Functional and Erotic Consequences of Genital Mutilation
The proceeding of the Fourth Symposium on Sexual Mutilations have been published in Mutilations: A Human Tragedy, New York: Plenum Press, 1997 (ISBN 0-306-45589-7).
The Symposium was sponsored by the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.
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