Male circumcision: a scientific perspective
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Male circumcision: a scientific perspective.
I n this issue, John Hutson has reiterated the conventional Western medical view that ‘‘the surgical argument for circumcision of all neonatal males at present is very weak’’ and he criticises many of the circumcisions performed in later childhood, without anaesthesia, as ‘‘physically cruel and potentially dangerous’’ [see page 238]. He is also of the opinion that ‘‘the diseases which circumcis...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.2002.002576