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Zero tolerance against patriarchal norms? A cross-sectional study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes towards young females requesting virginity certificates or hymen restoration
- Correspondence to Dr Niklas Juth, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, LIME, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; niklas.juth{at}ki.se
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Zero tolerance against patriarchal norms? A cross-sectional study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes towards young females requesting virginity certificates or hymen restoration
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- Received June 25, 2013
- Revised January 14, 2014
- Accepted February 3, 2014
- First published February 26, 2014.
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April 27, 2016
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