Carla Obermeyer
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Carla Makhlouf Obermeyer is an American medical anthropologist and epidemiologist. She is Associate Professor of Population and International Health at Harvard University. Obermeyer specializes in the study of fertility and healthcare, and has written about female genital mutilation. She is the editor of Family, Gender and Population in the Middle East (1995) and Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health (2001).[1]
Notes
- ↑ "Human rights at Harvard", Harvard School of Public Health Faculty.
- Tierney, John. "'Circumcision' or 'Mutilation'? And Other Questions About a Rite in Africa", The New York Times, 5 December 2007.
Further reading
- Obermeyer, Carla. "Female Genital Surgeries: The Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable", Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 31(1), 1999, pp. 79–106.
- Jacobson, Jodi L; Ibrahim, Barbara; and Obermeyer, Carla Makhlouf. "The Muslim Woman: Fighting For Faith and Family Planning", The Washington Post, 4 September 1994.
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