Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements

  • Book
  • © 2013

Overview

Editors:
  1. George C. Denniston

    1. Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Norland, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Frederick M. Hodges

    1. Berkeley, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Marilyn Fayre Milos

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

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • The volume contains the most important up-to-date research on the subject
  • This topic currently is being addressed by governments around the world
  • Corrects widely held medical misinformation

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Tortured Bodies, Tortured Doctrines: Informed Consent as a Legal Fiction Inapplicable to Neonatal Male Circumcision

    • J. Steven Svoboda
    Pages 1-28

  3. Routine Infant Circumcision: Vital Issues that the Circumcision Proponents may be Overlooking

    • Robert S. Van Howe
    Pages 29-54

  4. The Smart Penis

    • John Taylor
    Pages 55-58

  5. The Harm of Circumcision

    • George C. Denniston
    Pages 59-68

  6. Evolution of Circumcision Methods: Not “Just a Snip”

    • Hugh Young
    Pages 69-83

  7. Penile Wounding: Complications of Routine Male Circumcision in a Typical American Family Practice

    • Christopher Fletcher
    Pages 85-99

  8. Male Circumcision and the Potential for Unexplained Male Adolescent Suicide in Northern Ireland

    • Linda Massie
    Pages 101-106

  9. Healing the Harms of Circumcision: A Nursing Case Study

    • B. Maurene White
    Pages 107-130

  10. Ten Years of Training: Family Medicine Residents as Conscientious Objectors to Circumcision

    • Michelle Storms
    Pages 131-135

  11. Intersex Surgeries, Circumcision, and the Making of “Normal”

    • Elizabeth Reis
    Pages 137-147

  12. Intersex Genital Autonomy: A Rights-Based Framework for Medical Intervention with Intersex Infants

    • Paul Mason
    Pages 149-184

  13. The SAR/ROHAN (The Possession): A Response of Somali Women to Pharaonic Circumcision/Infibulation (PhC)

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Stefania Gazzea, Antonio Iaria
    Pages 185-194

  14. Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group (South Africa)

    • Erika Dionisio, Franco Viviani
    Pages 195-208

  15. Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)

    • Erika Dionisio, Franco Viviani
    Pages 209-218

  16. Critique of African RCTs into Male Circumcision and HIV Sexual Transmission

    • Gregory J. Boyle
    Pages 219-242

  17. Randomized Controlled Trials for HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Men in Africa: Untraced Infections, Unasked Questions, and Unreported Data

    • David Gisselquist
    Pages 243-270

  18. Dangerous Myths and Tragic Misconceptions: Fighting HIV and AIDS Cases in Africa with Male Circumcision Strategies

    • Charles L. Geshekter
    Pages 271-283

  19. Defying the Enlightenment: Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Circumcision

    • Leonard B. Glick
    Pages 285-296

  20. Circumcision: Gender and Power

    • Miriam Pollack
    Pages 297-305
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights. Authors are international experts in their fields, and the book contains the most up-to-date information on the issue of genital cutting of infants and children from medical, legal, bioethical, and human rights perspectives.

Reviews

From the reviews:

“The volume consists of 22 chapters … . This book is intended for medical professionals, researchers, students, and other professionals in diverse fields, including anthropology, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, public health, public policy, social work, and sociology. The organization and length of the book chapters make it easy for the intended audience. … This book is a useful primer or first step to a much-needed push for health education about male circumcision.” (Sussie Eshun and Irina Khusid, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (19), 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Norland, USA

    George C. Denniston

  • Berkeley, USA

    Frederick M. Hodges

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

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6407-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6406-4Published: 17 June 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9275-3Published: 14 July 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6407-1Published: 03 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 337

  • Topics: Pediatrics, Ethics, Anthropology, Pediatric Surgery, Sociology, general, Psychology, general

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation