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Honour-related threats and human rights: A qualitative study of Swedish healthcare providers’ attitudes towards young women requesting a virginity certificate or hymen reconstruction

Niklas JuthStockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska InstitutetCorrespondence[email protected]
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Torbjörn TännsjöStockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Stockholm University
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Sven-Ove HanssonStockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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Niels LynöeStockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet
Pages 451-459 | Published online: 10 Oct 2013

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Monica Christianson, Åsa Teiler & Carola Eriksson. (2021) “A woman’s honor tumbles down on all of us in the family, but a man’s honor is only his”: young women’s experiences of patriarchal chastity norms. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being 16:1.
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Sherria Ayuandini. (2017) How variability in hymenoplasty recommendations leads to contrasting rates of surgery in the Netherlands: an ethnographic qualitative analysis. Culture, Health & Sexuality 19:3, pages 352-365.
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Monica Christianson & Carola Eriksson. (2015) Promoting women's human rights: A qualitative analysis of midwives’ perceptions about virginity control and hymen ‘reconstruction’. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 20:3, pages 181-192.
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Olga Loeber. (2015) Wrestling with the hymen: Consultations and practical solutions. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care 20:2, pages 128-135.
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Niels Lynøe, Gert Helgesson & Niklas Juth. (2018) Value-impregnated factual claims may undermine medical decision-making. Clinical Ethics 13:3, pages 151-158.
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Amirhossein Moaddab, Laurence B. McCullough, Frank A. Chervenak, Lauren Stark, Jay Schulkin, Gary A. Dildy, Susan P. Raine & Alireza A. Shamshirsaz. (2017) A survey of honor-related practices among US obstetricians and gynecologists. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics 139:2, pages 164-169.
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Sherria Ayuandini. (2017) Finger Pricks and Blood Vials: How doctors medicalize ‘cultural’ solutions to demedicalize the ‘broken’ hymen in the Netherlands. Social Science & Medicine 177, pages 61-68.
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Amirhossein Moaddab, Laurence B McCullough, Frank A Chervenak, Gary A Dildy & Alireza Abdollah Shamshirsaz. (2016) Virginity testing in professional obstetric and gynaecological ethics. The Lancet 388:10039, pages 98-100.
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Savannah S. Young, Denise C. Lewis, Peter Gilbey, Arie Eisenman, Richard Schuster & Desiree M. Seponski. (2016) Conflict and Care. Global Qualitative Nursing Research 3, pages 233339361666658.
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Verina Wild, Hinda Poulin, Christopher W. McDougall, Andrea Stöckl & Nikola Biller-Andorno. (2015) Hymen reconstruction as pragmatic empowerment? Results of a qualitative study from Tunisia. Social Science & Medicine 147, pages 54-61.
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Sylvie Schuster. (2015) Hymen Restoration: “My” Discomfort, “Their” Culture, and Women’s Missing Voice. The Journal of Clinical Ethics 26:2, pages 162-165.
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Niklas Juth & Niels Lynöe. (2015) Zero tolerance against patriarchal norms? A cross-sectional study of Swedish physicians’ attitudes towards young females requesting virginity certificates or hymen restoration. Journal of Medical Ethics 41:3, pages 215-219.
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Niklas Juth & Niels Lynøe. (2014) Are there morally relevant differences between hymen restoration and bloodless treatment for Jehovah’s Witnesses?. BMC Medical Ethics 15:1.
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