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Lecture: Women's bodies across cultures and the routine use of episiotomies

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Title: Lecture: Women's bodies across cultures and the routine use of episiotomies
Author: Tanassi, Lucia
Description: Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "The often-routine use of episiotomies during childbirth, and arguments against the practice, were the topics of a World on Wednesdays lecture Feb. 22 by Assistant Professor of Medicine and Medical Ethics Lucia Tanassi." She draws parallels to the historical practice of cliterodectomy in the West. She also traces the rise of surgery in medical practice, replacing other childbirth practices.
Subject: World on Wednesdays
LCSH Subject: Childbirth
Obstetrics
Clitoridectomy -- Europe
Episiotomy
Vanderbilt University
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/442
Date: 2006-02-24

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