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> GENITAL CUTTING IN A GLOBALIZED AGE: A FORUM FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY
> DEBATE
> A major international conference in London
>
> When: Friday 4 July 2008
> Where: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, London, W1G
> 0AE
>
> Keynote lecture:
> CHERYL CHASE, Intersex Society of North America
> "Why a focus on surgery can't improve healthcare services for
> Disorders of
> Sex Development"
>
> A groundbreaking event bringing together medical doctors and
> researchers,
> social and behavioural scientists, scholars in literary and cultural
> studies, lawyers, artists, philosophers and historians who share a
> critical
> interest in genital modification in the clinical, political and
> cultural
> spheres. The remit will be to examine practices and discourses of
> health,
> harm and sexuality in their historical and contemporary contexts. The
> conference will explicitly address the discursive and legislative
> inconsistencies relating to genital cutting, and tackle the
> ideological,
> political and ethical implications of current practices.
>
> Topics and speakers:
>
> Childhood surgery for ambiguous genitalia
> MILTON DIAMOND, University of Hawaii
> PHILIP RANSLEY, formerly Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
>
> Sex reassignment surgery for transsexual people
> PHILIP THOMAS, Royal Sussex Hospital
> STEPHEN WHITTLE OBE, Manchester Metropolitan University
>
> Female genital mutilation
> EFUA DORKENOO OBE, London
>
> Male circumcision
> ROBERT DARBY, Canberra
>
> Genital cosmetic surgery
> VIRGINIA BRAUN, University of Auckland
> DAVID RALPH, University College London
>
> Chairs and discussants:
> Polly Carmichael
> Gerry Conway
> Hera Cook
> Lisa Downing
> Peter Hegarty
> Katrina Roen
>
> The conference will provide a unique opportunity for practitioners,
> researchers and scholars to harness interdisciplinary
> collaboration, in
> order to improve the accuracy, sophistication and impact of scientific
> research, discursive analysis, and professional practice relating
> to all
> forms of genital cutting.
>
> Registration fee (includes lunch): £85 before 31 March 2008; £115
> thereafter
>
> Registration form:
> http://www.iainmorland.net/docs/GCGA-registration.pdf
>
> Printable flyer:
> http://www.iainmorland.net/docs/GCGA-flyer.pdf
>
> Programme enquiries to Iain Morland ([log in to unmask])
>
> Sponsored by BJU International (www.bjui.org).
>
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