Complete combined amputation of penis and scrotum has been rarely reported. A case of an elderly male with complete genital mutilation is presented with the complexities of the phenomena. He was suffering from severe depressive episode and had experienced multiple events related to urinary system. His vulnerability to self injurious behaviour had been established by past suicide attempt. Gross ...

A person’s health profile includes his/her personal health history and his/her cultural, social, economic and environmental health beliefs. This is particularly true for migrants as they bring these histories and beliefs with them when moving. Migration can thus create situations where cultural and ethnic reproductive and sexual health practices differ from and sometimes conflict with those of ...

Many forms of self-inflicted injury are seen in psychiatric patients. Some common forms reported in the literature include self-enucleation,1 genital self-mutilation,2 and amputation of a limb.3 Different aetiologies may contribute to the different types of self-inflicted injury, one such being acting-out of psychotic symptoms. This is an important area to explore as acting-out of psychotic sym...

Abstract I argue that patients who suffer genital surgery to ‘disambiguate’ their sexual anatomy, a practice labelled ‘intersex mutilation’ (IGM) by intersex advocates, can be understood as victims of hermeneutical injustice in the sense elaborated Miranda Fricker. This claim is clarified and defended from two objections. further particular subset cases IGM-based instantiate novel form injustic...

Complete genital self-mutilation (GSM), mostly a non-suicidal behavior, is a rare occurrence among patients with psychotic and non-psychotic disorders. This case report is on a patient who, in the shadow of severe psychotic manifestations with overwhelming socio-cultural contents, completely self-mutilated his external genitals. Emergency surgical and psychiatric management improved his conditi...

The term 'female genital mutilation' refers to a range of irreversible procedures that alter the anatomy of a woman's genitalia. It is estimated that 132 million women worldwide have undergone such procedures, and a significant number are now living in the UK. Health care professionals need to understand the physical consequences of these procedures and the cultural issues surrounding them if t...

A 16-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital with traumatic luxation of right testis due to self-mutilation with a retractable knife on Apr. 20, 2004. He had been followed as temporal lobe epilepsy and suspicions of gender identify disorder by a pediatrician. He was fully oriented with a clear sensory and normal perception, but had no memory of what he had done. His parents were free...

We examine the impact of multinational oil companies’ (MOCs’) corporate social responsibility (CSR) on traditional practices recognized as violence against women and girls (VAWG) in Nigeria’s region. Results from use a combined propensity score matching logit model indicate that MOCs’ CSR play significant role empowering with information education to protect their human rights. This implies off...

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of the most prevalent harmful cultural practices against women and girls in many African countries. We identified reasons for failure legal approach to stop FGC practice Ejagham region Southwest Cameroon through multi-locale ethnographic fieldwork. The revolve around belief that FGM useful reduction sexual immorality among women, removal ambiguit...