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Murine Prostate Micro-dissection and Surgical Castration
Published on: May 11, 2016
[Human castration: historical notes]
1Museo di Storia della Medicina, Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Pathologia, Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, I.
Abstract:
Human castration has been performed from early times for different reasons: to punish and revenge, to display one's religious fanaticism, to protect or to control women, for eunuchs' trade, for therapeutical purposes. In early modern times men were castrated to obtain sopranos voices, or for eugenic or racial reasons. Nowadays chemical castration is used as a therapeutic treatment or as a way to punish rape and other criminal behaviours. Castration is surgical or chemical act that may obviously cause serious physical and psychological consequences.
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