Approximation to the Ablation/Female Genital Mutilation (A/FGM) from the Transcultural Nursing. A bibliographical revisión.
Abstract
Objective: Analysing the argumentations in favour to the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with the intention to know and understand the complex and subjective reality of this practice.Material and method: bibliographical search and revision on the net in order to accessing Web directories of organizations and the main health sciences data bases.
Results: The analysis of the biography contributes with a big quantity of information regarding the supportiveness of this practice and the complications derived from it, clarifying the complex situations involved in its perpetuation.
Conclusions: The FGM is understood as a cultural care of women determined by socio-cultural, hygienic- aesthetic, religious- spiritual and sexual factors among others related with health. In this way, a wide range of secondary complications to FGM have been described.
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