TY - JOUR
AU - Trappenburg, Margo
AB - 166 REVIEWS certed action should be taken against it. In the image of Western societies and their dynamics longer versions of the debate a wider variety of social change [4]. In the end, is it not simply of social, cultural and moral variables is put a question of one group of people forbidding another group to practise its own traditions? into the equation, in an attempt to get nearer to 'the other'. Morally speaking, however, the Or are broader shifts in patterns of social relations possible which bring 'solutions' impression which the current literature on more satisfactory for all. Commonly, partici- female circumcision leaves is one of social- pants in debates such as the one about female normative confusion. Rather than the black- circumcision have their preferences for one or and-white antithesis of social-normative another model of socio-cultural change. But, universality versus relativity which Lane and Rubinstein thought they observed in recent again, more often than not, they leave the model's basic moral tenets implicit and uncrit- publications, the problem seems to be more one of social-normative explicitness versus icised. My preliminary conclusion, therefore, is that if the case of female circumcision rests various degrees of implicitness or undecided- 
TI - Book reviews
JF - Health Care Analysis
DO - 10.1007/BF02678123
DA - 2007-07-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/book-reviews-70VNVV0Gfb
SP - 166
EP - 170
VL - 6
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -