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Flesh and Blood

Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2004

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Editors:
  1. George C. Denniston

    1. University of Washington, Seattle, USA

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  2. Frederick Mansfield Hodges

    1. Yale University, New Haven, USA

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  3. Marilyn Fayre Milos

    1. National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, USA

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Table of contents (17 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era

    • Frederick Mansfield Hodges
    Pages 1-15

  3. An Analysis of the Accuracy of the Presentation of the Human Penis in Anatomical Source Materials

    • Gary L. Harryman
    Pages 17-26

  4. The Importance of the Foreskin to Male Sexual Reflexes

    • H. S. Meislahn, J. R. Taylor
    Pages 27-43

  5. Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure

    • George C. Denniston
    Pages 45-53

  6. Conservative Treatment of Primary Preputial Stenosis in Adolescents

    • Michel Beaugé
    Pages 55-67

  7. Penile Torts in the Courts

    • David Llewellyn
    Pages 69-79

  8. The Activist’s Rights in the Workplace

    • Charles Bonner
    Pages 81-88

  9. Educating the United Nations about Circumcision

    • J. Steven Svoboda
    Pages 89-108

  10. Circumcision of Boys

    • Yngve Hofvander
    Pages 109-117

  11. Anthropology and Female Genital Cutting (FGC)

    • Marianne M. Sarkis
    Pages 119-131

  12. Changes in Infibulation Practice in East Africa

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Marica Livio, Franco Viviani
    Pages 133-142

  13. “Something Less Than Joyful”

    • Leonard B. Glick
    Pages 143-169

  14. The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate

    • Ronald Goldman
    Pages 171-194

  15. My Painful Journey

    • Mark D. Reiss
    Pages 195-206

  16. North Carolina Medicaid and the Funding of Routine Non-Therapeutic Circumcisions

    • Amber Craig
    Pages 207-216

  17. Adoption

    • Gregory J. Hartley
    Pages 217-225

  18. George Wald

    • Van Lewis
    Pages 227-235

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 237-254
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About this book

Who owns your sex organs? Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self­ evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain cultures have placed constraints over the individual's ownership of his or her sex organs and actively regulate and restrict the individual's access and use of those organs. In other cultures, the question of ownership of the sex organs is more decisively answered. In any culture where circumcision to any degree of either the male or female is practiced, permitted, encouraged, or even merely tolerated, it is clear that the individual is not considered to own his own sex organs. In the United States today, the medical establishment has created an is considered acceptable and desirable that anyone for environment where it any reason can authorize or execute the amputation of the foreskin from a male child's penis.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    George C. Denniston

  • Yale University, New Haven, USA

    Frederick Mansfield Hodges

  • National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, USA

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Flesh and Blood

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society

  • Editors: George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, Marilyn Fayre Milos

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4011-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-48333-2Published: 31 December 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-3446-8Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4011-0Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 254

  • Topics: Pediatric Surgery, Ethics, Regional and Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Social Sciences, general

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