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Circumcision : a history of the world's most controversial surgery /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gollaher, David, 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2000]
Subjects:
Circumcision > History.
Circumcision, Male > history.
Table of Contents:
  • The Jewish tradition
  • Christians and Muslims
  • Symbolic wounds
  • From ritual to science
  • The fabric of the foreskin
  • Circumcision and disease: the quest for evidence
  • Backlash
  • Female circumcision
  • Appendix: evaluative research and the nature of medical evidence.