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Victorian clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his harmless operative procedure

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Reproduced by permission of the Society for Medical Anthropology fromMedical Anthropology Newsletter 12 (4):9–15, 1981.

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Sheehan, E. Victorian clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and his harmless operative procedure. Feminist Issues 5, 39–53 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02685571

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