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In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical, ethical, and social aspects of circumcision.

A Surgical Temptation

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/09/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226101101, 978-0226101101
      ISBN10: 022610110X
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      Book Synopsis
      In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical, ethical, and social aspects of circumcision.

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