Male and Female Circumcision

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Keynote Address

   1. Evolutionary Cultural Ethics and the Circumcision of Children

      • Nahid F. Toubia

      Pages 1-7

3. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Histology of the Human Prepuce

   1. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Prepuce

      • Steve Scott

      Pages 9-18

   2. Anatomy and Histology of the Penile and Clitoral Prepuce in Primates

      • Christopher J. Cold, Kenneth A. McGrath

      Pages 19-29

   3. The Significance and Function of Preputial Langerhans Cells

      • George L. Williams

      Pages 31-36

4. Current Research on Circumcision and Phimosis

   1. The History of Phimosis from Antiquity to the Present

      • Frederick Mansfield Hodges

      Pages 37-62

   2. Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis

      • Steve C. Donnell

      Pages 63-65

   3. Anaesthesia for Circumcision

      • Robert S. Van Howe

      Pages 67-97

   4. Neonatal Circumcision and HIV Infection

      • Robert S. Van Howe

      Pages 99-129

5. Genital Mutilation: Religious and Cultural Considerations

   1. Muslims’ Genitalia in the Hands of the Clergy

      • Sami A. Aldeeb Abu-Salieh

      Pages 131-171

   2. Evangelical Christianity in America and its Relationship to Infant Male Circumcision

      • Jim D. Bigelow

      Pages 173-177

   3. A Jewish Perspective on Circumcision

      • Jenny Goodman

      Pages 179-182

   4. Circumcision

      • Godfrey B. Tangwa

      Pages 183-193

   5. Unifying Language

      • Jeannine Parvati Baker

      Pages 195-200

6. Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation

   1. Motivations for Modifications of the Human Body

      • Gérard Zwang

      Pages 201-207

   2. Psychoanalysis of Circumcision

      • Moisés Tractenberg

      Pages 209-214

   3. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder After Genital Medical Procedures

      • Janet Menage

      Pages 215-219

   4. Tyranny of the Victims

      • George C. Denniston

      Pages 221-240

   5. Epidemiological, Medical, Legal, and Psychological Aspects of Mutilation/at-Risk Girls in Italy

      • P. Grassivaro Gallo, L. Araldi, F. Viviani, R. Gaddini

      Pages 241-257

   6. Circumcision in America in 1998

      • Christopher R. Fletcher

      Pages 259-271

Every year around the world 13.3 million boys and 2 million girls have part or all of their external sex organs cut off. Doctors, parents, and politicians have been misled into thinking that these mutilations are beneficial, necessary and harmless. International respected experts in the fields of medicine, science, politics, law, ethics, sociology, anthropology, history and religion present the latest research, documentation and analysis of this world-wide problem, focusing on the ethical, political and legal aspects of sexual mutilation; the cost and burden to healthcare systems; the latest medical research; anatomical and function consequences; religious and cultural aspects; psychological aspects; and the world-wide campaign to end sexual mutilation.

• Religion
• anthropology
• ethics
• health
• politics

`...altogether they present an excellent overview of the current debate on circumcision, especially for those who are not so familiar with the complexity of the scientific, legal, ethical and political aspects of circumcision.'
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 4:1 (2001)

• University of Washington, Seanle

  George C. Denniston

• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

  Frederick Mansfield Hodges

• National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo

  Marilyn Fayre Milos

Policies and ethics