A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain by Robert Darby

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Robert Darby

374 pages • hardcover

2 editions

nonfiction health history challenging informative slow-paced
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In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dys...

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