Male and Female Circumcision Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Denniston, George C. (Editor), Hodges, Frederick Mansfield (Editor), Milos, Marilyn Fayre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1999.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Religion.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Ethics.; Pediatrics.; Public international law.; Medicine & Public Health.; Religious Studies, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Public International Law.

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 me...