Circumcision : a history of the world's most controversial surgery / David L. Gollaher.

  • Gollaher, David, 1949-
Date:
[2000], ©2000
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Basic Books, [2000], ©2000.

Physical description

xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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Contents

The Jewish tradition.--Christians and Muslims.--Symbolic wounds.--From ritual to science.--The fabric of the foreskin.--Circumcision and disease: the quest for evidence.--Backlash.--Female circumcision.--Appendix: evaluative research and the nature of medical evidence.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-240) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TXG /GOL
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ISBN

  • 0465043976