Circumcision
Subtitle: A History of the World's Most Controversial Surgery
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: February 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780465043972
First sentence: THE GENESIS OF CIRCUMCISION, LIKE MAGIC AND RELIGION, IS IMMEMORIAL.
Description: 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.