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Record W2270300381

The Case Against the Medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation

2004· article· en· W2270300381 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
C. Nana Derby

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian women's studies · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFemale Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicalizationSocioeconomic statusColonialismFemale circumcisionGender studiesPopulationSociologyMedicinePolitical scienceDemographyPsychiatryGynecologyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Contrary to claims by some scholars that as a category was non-existent in pre-colonial African societies (Oyewumi) historical analyses of their practices and traditions indicate otherwise. The otherness of woman relative to men in pre-colonial Africa is reflected still today in womens location in traditional and religious practices. The continued practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) which emerged in Egypt and spread across the continent some two thousand years ago (Nour; Bonvillain) is among the most harmful of these traditions. Movement activities against FGM date back to the seventeenth-century (Dorkenoo). Since then these activities have been somewhat successful in creating awareness both within and beyond domestic borders of the negative socioeconomic and psychological impacts of FGM but the process has been fraught with difficulties and the goal of eliminating FGM is yet to be realized. One of the many obstacles facing activism against female genital mutilation today is its medicalization which legalizes the practice and permits medical doctors to perform the procedure. This article reiterates the negative impact of FGM on womens health and well-being and examines the socioeconomic implications of its medicalization. (excerpt)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.229
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.282
Teacher spread0.257 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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