Invited Speakers: Seham Abd el Salem, Female Genital Mutilation Resource Centre
Documentalist, National NGO Commission for Population and
Development, Cairo, Egypt.
Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Doctor of Law, Swiss Institute of
Comparative Law, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Mustafa K. Al-Mahdawi, Libyan Judge, on trial in Libya for
apostasy. His 1991 book, Al-bayan bil-Qur'an (The proof by the
Koran) takes a clear position against male circumcision, which he
considers contrary to the Koran.
Jeree Archer, plaintiff, female genital mutilation litigation in
Australia, West Ryde, New South Wales, Australia.
Mohamed Badawi, MD, Ph.D., Department of Mental Hygiene, John
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Zenas Baer, JD, federal civil rights attorney, Hawley, Minnesota,
USA.
Jeannine Parvati Baker, co-founder, Six Directions, non-profit
educational organisation, author, Joseph, Utah, USA.
Peter Ball, MA, MB, B.Chir. (Cambridge), DRCOG, general
practitioner, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, UK.
Jim Bigelow, Ph.D., Director, UNCircumcising Information and
Resource Center (UNCIRC), author, Pacific Grove, California, USA.
Charles Bonner, JD, civil rights, personal injury and medical
malpractice attorney, Sausalito, California, USA.
Christopher Cold, MD, pathologist, Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield,
Wisconsin, USA.
Mary Conant, RN, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the Child,
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
George Denniston, MD, MPH, Director, Doctors Opposing
Circumcision (D.O.C.), Seattle, Washington, USA.
Shamis Dirir, Coordinator, London Black Women's Health Action
Project, London, UK.
Steve Donnell, FRCS, Senior Registrar, Department of Paediatric
Urology, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Paul Fleiss, MD, MPH, paediatrician, Los Angeles, California,
USA.
Christopher Fletcher, MD, paediatrician, Santa Fe, New Mexico,
USA.
Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, MB, Ch.B., Papers Editor, British Medical
Journal, London, UK.
Jenny Goodman, MD, Ch.B., psychotherapist, British National
Health Service, London, UK.
R. Wayne Griffiths, MS, M.Ed., Director, National Organization of
Restoring Men (NORM), Concord, California, USA.
Frederick Hodges, M.St. (Oxon), Wellcome Unit for the History of
Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Tina Kimmel, MSW, MPH, statistician, California State Department
of Health, Sacramento, California, USA.
Adwoa Kluvitse, Chair, Foundation for Women's Health Research and
Development (FORWARD), London, UK.
Mervyn Lander, MB, BS, Dip.Ter.Ed., FRACS, paediatric surgeon,
clinical lecturer, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
David Llewellyn, JD, Director, Atlanta Circumcision Information
Center, civil litigation attorney, Atlanta, George, USA.
Linda Massie, Director, NOCIRC of Northern Ireland.
Janet Menage, MA, MB, Ch.B., general medical practitioner,
founding member of Positive Care in Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
committee member, NORM-UK, Bulkington, Warwickshire, UK.
Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, Director, National Organization of
Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC), Coordinator,
International Symposia on Sexual Mutilations, San Anselmo,
California, USA.
Michel Odent, MD, Director, Primal Health Research Center,
London, UK.
Christopher Price, MA (Oxon), Soliciter of the Supreme Court of
England and Wales, former member of the Government Legal Service,
specializing in international and human rights law,
Pembrokeshire, SW Wales.
Marianne Sarkis, MA, applied medical anthropologist, established
first comprehensive World Wide Web site on female genital
mutilation, Albany, California, USA.
Dirk Schultheiss, MD, urologist, Department of Urology,
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Steve Scott, NOCIRC Educational Outreach Coordinator, Director,
NOCIRC of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
James L. Snyder, MD, FACS, urologist, past president, Virginia
Urologic Association, Clifton Forge, Virginia, USA.
Margaret A. Somerville, AM, FRSC, Gale Professor of Law,
Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill Centre for Medicine,
Ethics and Law, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Morris Sorrells, MD, paediatrician, Alameda County Ambulatory
Health Care Services, Oakland, California, USA.
Betty Katz Sperlich, RN, co-founder, Nurses for the Rights of the
Child, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
J. Steven Svoboda, JD, Director, Attorneys for the Rights of the
Child (ARC), Berkeley, California, USA.
Godfrey Tangwa, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of
Yaounde, Board Member, International Association of Bioethics
(IOB), Yaounde, Cameroon, Africa.
Nahid Toubia, MD, Director, Research Action and Information
Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (Rainbo), New York, New
York, USA.
Moises Tractenberg, MD, psychoanalyst, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Robert Van Howe, MD, Consultant to the American Academy of
Pediatrics Task Force on Circumcision (1997), paediatrician,
Marshfield Clinic, Minocqua, Wisconsin, USA.
John Warren, MD, DCH, FRCP, Director, National Organization of
Restoring Men (NORM-UK) and NOCIRC of UK, Harlow, UK.
Hugh Whitfield, MD, Editor, British Journal of Urology.
George Williams, MB, Ch.B., FRACP, consultant
paediatrician/perinatologist, Director, NOCIRC of Australia,
Menai, New South Wales, Australia.
Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, steering committee, Israeli
Association Against Genital Mutilation, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Joseph Zoske, CSW, psychotherapist, independent health care
consultant, Albany, New York, USA.
Gerard Zwang, MD, urologic surgeon, author, The Female Genitalia
and Sexual Pathology, St. Clement de Riviere, France.
Program:
SYMPOSIUM DESCRIPTION
Every year around the world, 13.3 million boys and 2 million
girls have part of all of their external sex organs cut off.
These mutilations are rarely regarded as such in the
societies where they are performed.
Even in developed nations, the proponents of male and female
sexual mutilation defend these mutilations with dubious
scientific studies and manipulated statistics and by appeals to
custom and tradition.
Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into
believing that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary, and
harmless.
Internationally respected experts in the fields of
medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology,
anthropology, history, and religion will present the latest
research, documentation, and analysis of this world-wide problem
SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the Symposium, participants will understand:
the ethical, political, and legal aspects of sexual mutilation;
the cost and other burdens to health care systems of medically
contraindicated sexual mutilations such as male circumcision;
the latest medical research on circumcision;
the latest medical research on phimosis;
the anatomical and functional consequences of male and female
sexual mutilation;
the religious and cultural aspects of sexual mutilation;
the need for religious, cultural, and gender sensitivity to the
issue of sexual mutilation;
the world-wide campaign to end sexual mutilation;
the psychological aspects and sequelae of sexual mutilation;
the historical and contemporary aspects of foreskin restoration;
the difficulty of getting accurate information about sexual
mutilation into medical publications.
Registration :
REGISTRATION FORM
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Early registration fee:
All three days: 200 British pounds or $330
Per day: 90 British pounds or $150
On-site registration fee:
All three days: 250 British pounds
Per day: 120 British pounds
Make cheque payable to:
NORM-UK (British pounds) or NOCIRC (U.S. dollars)
Registration fee exclusive of accommodation and catering.
Send check to:
(British pounds) NORM-UK, PO Box 71, Stone, Staffordshire ST15
OSF, UK
(U.S. dollars) NOCIRC, PO Box 2512, San Anselmo, CA 94979, USA
Please tick as appropriate:
Wednesday, August 5
Thursday, August 6
Friday, August 7
All Three Days, August 5-7
Total Registration Payment Enclosed:
Cancellation requests must be made in writing and post-marked no
later than 25 July 1998. A 50 British pounds or $80 per person
processing fee will be deducted from the refund, which will be
returned within 60 days following the symposium.
Deadline for Abstracts: contact nocirc@nbn.com
Email for Requests and Registration: nocirc@nbn.com