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Male and Female Circumcision Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice

Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary and harmless. International respected experts in the fields of me...

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Other Authors: Denniston, George C. (Editor), Hodges, Frederick Mansfield (Editor), Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Subjects:
Regional And Cultural Studies
Ethics
Religious Studies, General
Public International Law
Pediatrics
Religion
Culture—study And Teaching
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature
  • Publication on Circumcision in the Medical Literature
  • Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation
  • Circumcision and Virtue Ethics
  • Respect in the Context of Infant Male Circumcision
  • Male Non-Therapeutic Circumcision
  • Attaining International Acknowledgment of Male Genital Mutilation as a Human Rights Violation
  • Some Thoughts on Legal Remedies
  • The Doctor as Expert Witness in United States Courts
  • The Oxford Declaration
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder After Genital Medical Procedures
  • Tyranny of the Victims
  • Epidemiological, Medical, Legal, and Psychological Aspects of Mutilation/at-Risk Girls in Italy
  • Circumcision in America in 1998
  • Facing Circumcision
  • Neonatal Circumcision from a Peimal Health Research Perspective
  • Celebrating Phallos
  • Foreskin Restoration: Historical and Contemporary Considerations
  • The History of Foreskin Restoration
  • Current Practices in Foreskin Restoration
  • Foreskin Restoration (Circumcision Reversal)
  • The Man Behind Restoration
  • The World-Wide Campaign.to End Genital Mutilation
  • A Comprehensive Approach for Communication about Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
  • The History of Circumcision in the United States
  • Genital Mutilation in Ireland
  • Challenges to Circumcision in Israel
  • Activism on the World Wide Web
  • Current Problems in Medical Publication
  • Peer-Review Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Publishing
  • Keynote Address
  • Evolutionary Cultural Ethics and the Circumcision of Children
  • The Anatomy, Physiology, and Histology of the Human Prepuce
  • The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Prepuce
  • Anatomy and Histology of the Penile and Clitoral Prepuce in Primates
  • The Significance and Function of Preputial Langerhans Cells
  • Current Research on Circumcision and Phimosis
  • The History of Phimosis from Antiquity to the Present
  • Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis
  • Anaesthesia for Circumcision
  • Neonatal Circumcision and HIV Infection
  • Genital Mutilation: Religious and Cultural Considerations
  • Muslims’ Genitalia in the Hands of the Clergy
  • Evangelical Christianity in America and its Relationship to Infant Male Circumcision
  • A Jewish Perspective on Circumcision
  • Circumcision
  • Unifying Language
  • Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation
  • Motivations for Modifications of the Human Body
  • Psychoanalysis of Circumcision

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