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Approximation to the ablation/female genital mutilation (A/FGM from the transcultural nursing. A bibliographical revisión

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Objective: Analysing the argumentations in favour to the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM with the intention to know and understand the complex and subjective reality of this practice. Material and method: bibliographical search and revision on the net in order to accessing Web directories of organizations and the main health sciences data bases. Results: The analysis of the biography contributes with a big quantity of information regarding the supportiveness of this practice and the complications derived from it, clarifying the complex situations involved in its perpetuation. Conclusions: The FGM is understood as a cultural care of women determined by socio-cultural, hygienic- aesthetic, religious- spiritual and sexual factors among others related with health. In this way, a wide range of secondary complications to FGM have been described. © Servicio de Publicaciones - Universidad de Murcia.