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

Gollaher, David

 
9780465043972: Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0465043976 ISBN 13: 9780465043972
Verlag: Basic Books, 2000

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 célèbre.”

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Verlag
Basic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0465043976
ISBN 13 
9780465043972
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
253
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