Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery write by David Gollaher. This book was released on 2001-02-28. Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How has a medical practice that carries substantial risk to the patient and offers very little actual benefit become so widely accepted by parents and fiercely advocated by the medical community? Historian of medicine David Gollaher tells the strange history of medicine's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual in Circumcision. From the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through circumcision's use by the rising medical community in the nineteenth century as prevention for ailments ranging from bedwetting to paralysis, the great mystery has been the persistence of the practice through vastly different social contexts.
History of Circumcision
History of Circumcision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of Circumcision write by P. C. Remondino. This book was released on 2001. History of Circumcision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of male and female circumcision originally published in 1900, the book is based on a long and personal observation of the changes made in man by circumcision. Dr. Remondino inquired into the moral, physical, and mental effects of circumcision in the three major religions. He goes beyond just discussing circumcision, by including all the mutilations practiced on the genitals as a contribution to the natural history of man. Over 26 chapters include antiquity of circumcision, theories as to the origin of circumcision, the spread of circumcision, the history of castration and eunuchism reasons for being circumcised, medical conditions and related surgery, and attempts to abolish circumcision.
Male and Female Circumcision
Male and Female Circumcision - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Male and Female Circumcision write by George C. Denniston. This book was released on 2007-08-27. Male and Female Circumcision available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
From Abraham to America
From Abraham to America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Abraham to America write by Eric Kline Silverman. This book was released on 2006. From Abraham to America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Silverman's new book is a comprehensive overview of Jewish circumcision throughout history. Beginning with Genesis, the author traces paradoxes and tensions in biblical-Jewish circumcision as seen both within Judaism and from the dominant, non-Jewish culture, and ends with the current debate over Jewish and routine medical circumcision in America. This book is essential reading in Jewish studies, medical sociology, and Judaic studies/theology.
Marked in Your Flesh
Marked in Your Flesh - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marked in Your Flesh write by Leonard B. Glick. This book was released on 2005-06-30. Marked in Your Flesh available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.
