Fourth International Symposium

The Fourth International Symposium on sexual mutilations convened at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland on August 9-11, 1996.

Proceedings

• Aldeeb, Sami A. Doctor of Law.

Jehovah, His Cousin Allah, and Sexual Mutilations

• Baker, Jeannine Parvati

The Wound Reveals the Cure

• Bonner, Charles, David Llewellyn, and Zenas Baer

Lawsuits in the News (a panel discussion)

• Demeo, James

The Geography of Male and Female Genital Mutilations

• Denniston, George, M.D.

Circumcision: An Iatrogenic Epidemic

• Diers, Didier and Xavier Valla

Skoptzy: The Russian Sect of the Castrated

• Ellsworth, Barry

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

• Goodman, Jenny, M.D.

Challenging Circumcision: A Jewish Perspective

• Hammond, Tim

Male Sexual Mutilation: Revealing the Harm, Healing the Wounds

• Landers, Mervyn

Review of the Australian College of Paediatrics Position Paper on “Neonatal Male Circumcision”

• Lightfoot-Klein, Hanny.

Similarities in Attitudes and Misconceptions Toward Infant Male Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation

• Mire, Soraya

Fire Eyes: a Documentary Film

• Muller, Christa

Female Genital Mutilation in Germany: An Update from (I)NTACT

• Odent, Michel

Learned Helplessness: A Concept of the Future

• Pollack, Miriam

Defining what is Sacred

• Prescott, James

Ashley Montagu Resolution to End the Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: a Petition to the World Court, The Hague

• Ras-Work, Berhane

Female Genital Mutilation

• Schonfeld, Victor

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

• Toubia, Nahid, M.D.

Rainbo, Female Genital Mutilation in the U.S. and Help For Its Victims

• Van Howe, Robert S., M.D.

Does Circumcision Persist in the U.S.?

• Warren, John, M.B.

NORM UK and the Medical Case Against Circumcision: A British Perspective

• Williams, George, M.B.

NOCIRC of Australia

• Zavales, Anastasios

Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male and Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom

• Zwang, Gerard

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).

Sponsor

The Symposium was sponsored by the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.