Circumcision and Human Rights [electronic resource] / edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Fayre Milos.

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610
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Circumcision and Human Rights edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Fayre Milos.
Physical Description
XXIII, 273 p. online resource.
Summary
"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don’t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason." In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and in the Muslim world, 13.3 million infant boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off for reasons that defy logic and violate basic human rights. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that circumcision is beneficial, necessary, and harmless. In Circumcision and human rights, internationally respected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history, and religion present the latest research on this tragedy, as a part of the worldwide campaign to end sexual mutilation. They outline steps for eradicating this abusive practice to enable males and females the dignity of living out their lives with all the body parts with which they were born.
Added Author
Denniston, George C. editor.
Hodges, Frederick Mansfield. editor.
Milos, Marilyn Fayre Fayre. editor.
SpringerLink (Online service)
Subject
MEDICINE.
MEDICAL ETHICS.
MEDICAL LAWS AND LEGISLATION.
Biomedicine.
Biomedicine general.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Medical Law.
Multimedia
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Summary
"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don’t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason." In the United States, parts of Africa, the Middle East, and in the Muslim world, 13.3 million infant boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off for reasons that defy logic and violate basic human rights. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that circumcision is beneficial, necessary, and harmless. In Circumcision and human rights, internationally respected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history, and religion present the latest research on this tragedy, as a part of the worldwide campaign to end sexual mutilation. They outline steps for eradicating this abusive practice to enable males and females the dignity of living out their lives with all the body parts with which they were born.
Subject
MEDICINE.
MEDICAL ETHICS.
MEDICAL LAWS AND LEGISLATION.
Biomedicine.
Biomedicine general.
Medicine/Public Health, general.
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.
Medical Law.
Multimedia