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9780465043972

Circumcision

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  • ISBN13:

    9780465043972

  • ISBN10:

    0465043976

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-02-01
  • Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

This worldwide history of circumcision, from ancient times to the present, looks at the procedure as initiation, religious and social ritual, and indicator of ethnic and social status

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
The Jewish Tradition
1(30)
Christians and Muslims
31(22)
Symbolic Wounds
53(20)
From Ritual to Science
73(36)
The Fabric of the Foreskin
109(16)
Circumcision and Disease: The Quest for Evidence
125(36)
Backlash
161(26)
Female Circumcision
187(22)
Appendix: Evaluative Research and the Nature of Medical Evidence 209(4)
Notes 213(28)
Index 241

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