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Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery - Softcover

Gollaher, David

 
9780465026531: Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0465026532 ISBN 13: 9780465026531
Verlag: Basic Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

From the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through its use by nineteenth-century doctors as prevention for ailments including bedwetting, paralysis, and epilepsy, circumcision has had a long and varied history. Perhaps the greatest mystery, however, is its persistence over time through vastly different social contexts.Historian of medicine David Gollaher takes a comprehensive look at the practice in this lively, scholarly history. Circumcision also addresses the growing controversy over the procedure's continuance, and those opposing routine circumcision will find support here. Gollaher concludes that "if male circumcision were confined to developing nations, it would by now have emerged as an international cause cébre."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr. Gollaher is President and CEO of the California Healthcare Institute and the author of Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix. He lives in San Diego, California.

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465026532
ISBN 13 
9780465026531
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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