Title Circumcision : a history of the world's most controversial surgery / David L. Gollaher.

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Description	xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-240) and index.
Contents	The Jewish tradition -- Christians and Muslims -- Symbolic wounds -- From ritual to science -- The fabric of the foreskin -- Circumcision and disease: the quest for evidence -- Backlash -- Female circumcision -- Appendix: evaluative research and the nature of medical evidence.
Summary	The Jewish tradition -- Christians and Muslims -- Symbolic wounds -- From ritual to science -- The fabric of the foreskin -- Circumcision and disease: the quest for evidence -- Backlash -- Female circumcision -- Appendix: evaluative research and the nature of medical evidence.
Subject	Circumcision -- History.
	Circoncision masculine.
	Circumcision. (OCoLC)fst00861628
	Circumcisie.
	Beschneidung Mann (DE-588)4144874-1
	Circoncision.
	Histoire.
	Aspect culturel.
	Aspect médical.
	Aspect religieux.
	Circumcision, Male -- history.
Chronological Term	Geschichte.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Online version: Gollaher, David, 1949- Circumcision. New York : Basic Books, ©2000 (OCoLC)647206265
ISBN	0465043976
	9780465043972
	0465026532
	9780465026531

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