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Cutting slack and cutting corners: an ethical and pragmatic response to Arora and Jacobs’ ‘Female genital alteration: a compromise solution’
- Correspondence to Dr Arianne Shahvisi, Department of Ethics, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, University Of Sussex, Medical School, Biology Road Falmer, EAST SUSSEX, Brighton BN1 9PX, UK; A.Shahvisi{at}bsms.ac.uk
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Cutting slack and cutting corners: an ethical and pragmatic response to Arora and Jacobs’ ‘Female genital alteration: a compromise solution’
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- Received November 25, 2015
- Accepted December 3, 2015
- First published February 22, 2016.
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April 27, 2016
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