Circumcision and Human Rights

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Denniston, George C. (Editor), Hodges, Frederick Mansfield (Editor), Milos, Marilyn Fayre Fayre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Medical ethics.; Medical laws and legislation.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Medical Law.

"There is hardly a reason to circumcise a little boy for medical reasons because those medical reasons don’t exist," said Dr. Michael Wilks, Head of Ethics at the British Medical Association, who admitted that doctors have circumcised boys for "no good reason." In the United Stat...