Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Tortured Bodies, Tortured Doctrines: Informed Consent as a Legal Fiction Inapplicable to Neonatal Male Circumcision

   • J. Steven Svoboda

   Pages 1-28

3. Routine Infant Circumcision: Vital Issues that the Circumcision Proponents may be Overlooking

   • Robert S. Van Howe

   Pages 29-54

4. The Smart Penis

   • John Taylor

   Pages 55-58

5. The Harm of Circumcision

   • George C. Denniston

   Pages 59-68

6. Evolution of Circumcision Methods: Not “Just a Snip”

   • Hugh Young

   Pages 69-83

7. Penile Wounding: Complications of Routine Male Circumcision in a Typical American Family Practice

   • Christopher Fletcher

   Pages 85-99

8. Male Circumcision and the Potential for Unexplained Male Adolescent Suicide in Northern Ireland

   • Linda Massie

   Pages 101-106

9. Healing the Harms of Circumcision: A Nursing Case Study

   • B. Maurene White

   Pages 107-130

10. Ten Years of Training: Family Medicine Residents as Conscientious Objectors to Circumcision

    • Michelle Storms

    Pages 131-135

11. Intersex Surgeries, Circumcision, and the Making of “Normal”

    • Elizabeth Reis

    Pages 137-147

12. Intersex Genital Autonomy: A Rights-Based Framework for Medical Intervention with Intersex Infants

    • Paul Mason

    Pages 149-184

13. The SAR/ROHAN (The Possession): A Response of Somali Women to Pharaonic Circumcision/Infibulation (PhC)

    • Pia Grassivaro Gallo, Stefania Gazzea, Antonio Iaria

    Pages 185-194

14. Genital Stretching Among the Venda Ethnic Group (South Africa)

    • Erika Dionisio, Franco Viviani

    Pages 195-208

15. Male Circumcision Among the Venda of Limpopo (South Africa)

    • Erika Dionisio, Franco Viviani

    Pages 209-218

16. Critique of African RCTs into Male Circumcision and HIV Sexual Transmission

    • Gregory J. Boyle

    Pages 219-242

17. Randomized Controlled Trials for HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Men in Africa: Untraced Infections, Unasked Questions, and Unreported Data

    • David Gisselquist

    Pages 243-270

18. Dangerous Myths and Tragic Misconceptions: Fighting HIV and AIDS Cases in Africa with Male Circumcision Strategies

    • Charles L. Geshekter

    Pages 271-283

19. Defying the Enlightenment: Jewish Ethnicity and Ethnic Circumcision

    • Leonard B. Glick

    Pages 285-296

20. Circumcision: Gender and Power

    • Miriam Pollack

    Pages 297-305

This volume contains the proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights. Authors are international experts in their fields, and the book contains the most up-to-date information on the issue of genital cutting of infants and children from medical, legal, bioethical, and human rights perspectives.

• Circumcision
• Human Rights
• Medical Ethics
• Medicine and Law
• Pediatrics

From the reviews:

“The volume consists of 22 chapters … . This book is intended for medical professionals, researchers, students, and other professionals in diverse fields, including anthropology, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, public health, public policy, social work, and sociology. The organization and length of the book chapters make it easy for the intended audience. … This book is a useful primer or first step to a much-needed push for health education about male circumcision.” (Sussie Eshun and Irina Khusid, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 59 (19), 2014)

• Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Norland, USA

  George C. Denniston

• Berkeley, USA

  Frederick M. Hodges

• Information Resource Centers, National Organization of Circumcision In Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, USA

  Marilyn Fayre Milos

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