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How can Medical Anthropology help us to perceive reproductive practices, specifically Female Genital Mutilation, in a way that tolerates alternative schools of thought? – Bethany Wildridge (2016)

This essay is an exploration of how Medical Anthropology can enable healthcare professionals, academics and lay people to understand reproductive practices from the perspective of their cultural origin. Worryingly, developments in Western healthcare have resulted in a neo-colonial attitude being adopted in response to alternative or seemingly horrifying reproductive practices, such as FGM, in developing countries.