Circumcision

A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery

By: David Gollaher

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Paperback | 13 July 2005 | Edition Number 1

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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. 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.

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Sociology Sociology & Customs & Traditions Surgery Miscellaneous Items History

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Jewish Tradition	p. 1
Christians and Muslims	p. 31
Symbolic Wounds	p. 53
From Ritual to Science	p. 73
The Fabric of the Foreskin	p. 109
Circumcision and Disease: the Quest for Evidence	p. 125
Backlash	p. 161
Female Circumcision	p. 187
Appendix: Evaluative Research and the Nature of Medical Evidence	p. 209
Notes	p. 213
Index	p. 241
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