Circumcision A History Of The Worlds Most Controversial Surgery

Download or read book Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery written by David Gollaher and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strange history of surgery's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual.

Download or read book Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery written by David Gollaher and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2001-02-28 with total page 0 pages. 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.

Download or read book Circumcision written by David L. Gollaher and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 253 pages. 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

Download or read book Marked in Your Flesh written by Leonard B. Glick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Abraham's Heirs" comes a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to modern day.

Download or read book A Surgical Temptation written by Robert Darby and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 786 pages. 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 procedu...

Download or read book Circumcision Exposed written by Billy Ray Boyd and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 174 pages. 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.

Download or read book Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? written by Shaye J. D. Cohen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book represents engaged scholarship at its very best. Cohen presents the vast range of texts at his command with brevity and wit. Elegantly written, this is a very stimulating book that is sure to provoke admiration, discussion, and controversy."—David Biale, author of Cultures of the Jews "A distinguished and wide-ranging work of scholarship. Cohen’s definitive discussion of the covenant of circumcision enhances our understanding of Jewish identity formation, women’s status in Judaism, Jewish-Christian polemic, and the impact of diverse cultural environments on the evolution of Jewish tradition."—Judith R. Baskin, author of Midrashic Women