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- Title
Battles over the Sexes.
- Authors
Kaebnick, Gregory E.
- Abstract
Several themes in this issue of the Hastings Center Report deserve mention. Entirely fortuitously, several shorter pieces in this issue discuss the nature of the doctor-patient relationship and the need for physicians to engage patients personally rather than only technically. Also, a special supplement to this issue addresses the shifting terrain of the debate about the use of animals in medical research. Perhaps the most prominent topic in the issue, however, is the physical modification of women's genitals. Both articles address this topic, and though there are significant differences between the two articles, both circle specifically around the question of whether the modification of women's genitals may be driven by cultural norms of womanhood and how women differ from men, and both comment not just on the questions but on the social debate about them.
- Subjects
ANIMAL experimentation; FEMALE genital mutilation; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; SERIAL publications; SEX distribution
- Publication
Hastings Center Report, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 6, p2
- ISSN
0093-0334
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hast.85