Can Culture Justify Infant Circumcision?

Circumcision of Infant Males

Non-therapeutic infant male circumcision

OBJECTIVES To review the evidence of the benefits and harms of infant male circumcision, and the legal and ethical perspectives of infant male circumcision. METHODS We conducted a systematic search of the literature using PubMed, EMBASE, and the Cochrane library up to June 2015. We searched the medical law literature using the Westlaw and Lexis Library law literature resources up to June 2015...

Terfenadine therapy: can we justify the risks?

DEPUIS LA MISE EN VENTE DE LA TERFÉNADINE, antihistaminique non sédatif, il y a plus de 20 ans, des rapports sur des cas d’arythmie cardiaque et de mort subite associée à son utilisation ont entraîné son retrait du marché dans certains pays. Néanmoins, la terfénadine est toujours en vente au Canada. Les avantages qu’offre ce médicament pour contrôler les symptômes de la fièvre des foins ne l’em...

Legal threat to infant male circumcision.

Despite a recent shift in pediatric policy in the United States toward support for newborn circumcision of boys,1 the procedure continues to be challenged on legal and ethical grounds. In 2010, a ballot initiative in San Francisco, California, to ban the circumcision of male infants gained publicity, as did a decision by a minor court in Cologne, Germany, in 2012 that found the illegality of ci...

The tolerance of ritual male infant circumcision.

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