Male and Female Circumcision

by Denniston, George C.; Hodges, Frederick Mansfield; Milos, Marilyn Fayre

• ISBN13: 9780306461316
• ISBN10: 0306461315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Section 1. Keynote Address
Evolutionary Cultural Ethics and Circumcision of Children	1	(8)
N. Toubia
Section 2. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Histology of the Human Prepuce
Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Prepuce	9	(10)
S. Scott
Anatomy and Histology of the Penile and Clitoral Prepuce in Primates: Evolutionary Perspective of Specialised Sensory Tissue of the External Genitalia	19	(12)
C. J. Cold
K. A. McGrath
Significance and Function of Preputial Langerhans Cells	31	(6)
G. L. Williams
Section 3. Current Research on Circumcision and Phimosis
The History of Phimosis from Antiquity to the Present	37	(26)
F. M. Hodges
Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis	63	(4)
S. C. Donnell
Anaesthesia for Circumcision: A Review of the Literature	67	(32)
R. S. Van Howe
Neonatal Circumcision and HIV Infection	99	(32)
R. S. Van Howe
Section 4. Genital Mutilation: Religious and Cultural Considerations
Muslims' Genitalia in the Hands of the Clergy: Religious Arguments about Male and Female Circumcision	131	(42)
S. A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh
Evangelical Christianity and Its Relation to Infant Male Circumcision	173	(6)
J. D. Bigelow
A Jewish Perspective on Circumcision	179	(4)
J. Goodman
Circumcision: An African Point of View	183	(12)
G. B. Tangwa
Unifying Language: Religious and Cultural Considerations	195	(6)
J. P. Baker
Section 5. Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation
Motivations for Modifications of the Human Body	201	(8)
G. Zwang
Psychoanalysis of Circumcision	209	(6)
M. Tractenberg
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder After Genital Medical Procedures	215	(6)
J. Menage
Tyranny of the Victims: An Analysis of Circumcision Advocacy	221	(20)
G. C. Denniston
Epidemiological, Medical, Legal, and Psychological Aspects of Mutilated/At-Risk Girls in Italy: A Bioethical Focus	241	(18)
P. Grassivaro Gallo
L. Araldi
F. Viviani
R. Gaddini
Circumcision in America in 1998: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Charges of American Physicians	259	(14)
C. R. Fletcher
Facing Circumcision: Eight Physicians Tell Their Stories	273	(2)
B. Katz Sperlich
M. Conant
Neonatal Circumcision from a Primal Health Research Perspective	275	(4)
M. Odent
Celebrating Phallos: Healing Men and Culture	279	(6)
J. Zoske
Section 6. Foreskin Restoration: Historical and Contemporary Considerations
The History of Foreskin Restoration	285	(10)
D. Schultheiss
Current Practices in Foreskin Restoration: The State of Affairs in the United States, and Results of a Survey of Restoring Men	295	(8)
R. W. Griffiths
Foreskin Restoration (Circumcision Reversal)	303	(8)
J. P. Warren
The Man Behind Restoration	311	(6)
M. M. Lander
Section 7. The World-Wide Campaign to End Genital Mutilation
A Comprehensive Approach for Communication about Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt	317	(14)
S. Abd el Salam
The History of Circumcision in the United States: A Physician's Perspective	331	(8)
M. L. Sorrells
Genital Mutilation in Ireland: A Public Health and Human Rights Report	339	(4)
L. Massie
Challenges to Circumcision in Israel: The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation	343	(8)
A. Zoossmann-Diskin
R. Blustein
Activism on the World Wide Web: The Role of the Internet in the Dissemination of Circumcision-Related Information	351	(6)
M. M. Sarkis
Section 8. Current Problems in Medical Publication
Peer-Review Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Publishing: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm	357	(22)
R. S. Van Howe
An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature	379	(24)
P. M. Fleiss
Publication on Circumcision in the Medical Literature: The Role of an Editor	403	(6)
H. N. Whitfield
Section 9. Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation
Circumcision and Virtue Ethics	409	(4)
M. M. Lander
Respect in the Context of Infant Male Circumcision: Can Ethics and Law Provide Insights?	413	(12)
M. A. Somerville
Male Non-Therapeutic Circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues	425	(30)
C. Price
Attaining International Acknowledgment of Male Genital Mutilation as a Human Rights Violation, and a Written Intervention	455	(16)
J. S. Svoboda
Some Thoughts on Legal Remedies	471	(14)
D. J. Llewellyn
The Doctor as Expert Witness in United States Courts	485	(10)
J. L. Snyder
The Oxford Declaration: A Call for the Prohibition of the Genital Mutilation of Children	495	(10)
C. A. Bonner
Appendix 1: Declaration of Genital Integrity	505	(2)
Appendix 2: Circumcision: Information, Misinformation, Disinformation	507	(12)
E. Wallerstein
Appendix 3: Resources	519	(4)
Contributors	523	(6)
Index	529