Abstract

JIMENEZ RUIZ, I.; ALMANSA MARTINEZ, P.; PASTOR BRAVO, M.M.  and  PINA ROCHE, F.. Approximation to the Ablation/Female Genital Mutilation (A/FGM) from the Transcultural Nursing: A bibliographical revisión. Enferm. glob. [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.28, pp.396-410. ISSN 1695-6141.

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.

Keywords : ablation/female genital mutilation; ablation; female circumcision; transcultural nursing.

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