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Author : David Gollaher
Release : 2000-03-20
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Synopsis Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery by : David Gollaher
Download or read book Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery written by David Gollaher. This book was released on 2000-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange history of surgery's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual.
Author : David Gollaher
Release : 2001-02-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 531/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery by : David Gollaher
Download or read book Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery written by David Gollaher. This book was released on 2001-02-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has a medical practice that carries substantial risk to the patient and offers very little actual benefit become so widely accepted by parents and fiercely advocated by the medical community? Historian of medicine David Gollaher tells the strange history of medicine's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual in Circumcision. From the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through circumcision's use by the rising medical community in the nineteenth century as prevention for ailments ranging from bedwetting to paralysis, the great mystery has been the persistence of the practice through vastly different social contexts.
Author : David L. Gollaher
Release : 2000-10-01
Genre : Medical
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Circumcision by : David L. Gollaher
Download or read book Circumcision written by David L. Gollaher. This book was released on 2000-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This worldwide history of circumcision, from ancient times to the present, looks at the procedure as initiation, religious and social ritual, and indicator of ethnic and social status
Author : Robert Darby
Release : 2013-09-20
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 78X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Surgical Temptation by : Robert Darby
Download or read book A Surgical Temptation written by Robert Darby. This book was released on 2013-09-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation. Robert Darby reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. This study explores the process by which the male genitals, and the foreskin especially, were pathologized, while offering glimpses into the lives of such figures as James Boswell, John Maynard Keynes, and W. H. Auden. Examining the development of knowledge about genital anatomy, concepts of health, sexual morality, the rise of the medical profession, and the nature of disease, Darby shows how these factors transformed attitudes toward the male body and its management and played a vital role in the emergence of modern medicine.
Author : Billy Ray Boyd
Release : 1990
Genre : Health & Fitness
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Book Rating : 394/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Circumcision Exposed by : Billy Ray Boyd
Download or read book Circumcision Exposed written by Billy Ray Boyd. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 60 percent of all male newborns are routinely circumcised in the U.S. In this book, the founder of the men's group, The Victims Speak, debunks the medical reasons for infant male circumcision and places them in a cultural and historical context. Boyd also explores male and female circumcision in a range of cultures. Illustrations.
