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Gollaher, David

 
9780465026531: Circumcision: A History Of The World's Most Controversial Surgery
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ISBN 10 : 0465026532 ISBN 13 : 9780465026531
Editeur : Basic Books, 2001

Synopsis

How has a medical practice that carries substantial risk to the patient and offers very little actual benefit become so widely accepted by parents and fiercely advocated by the medical community? Historian of medicine David Gollaher tells the strange history of medicine's oldest enigma and most persistent ritual in Circumcision. From the extraordinarily painful initiation rite of the ancient Egyptians, through the Hebrew purification ritual, through circumcision's use by the rising medical community in the nineteenth century as prevention for ailments ranging from bedwetting to paralysis, the great mystery has been the persistence of the practice through vastly different social contexts.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dr. Gollaher is President and CEO of the California Healthcare Institute and the author of Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix. He lives in San Diego, California.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465026532
ISBN 13 
9780465026531
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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