Surgical Temptation - The Demonization of Foreskin Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Informationen zum Autor Robert Darby is an independent medical historian and freelance writer. His most recent book is an abridged edition of George Drysdale's classic polemic against Victorian morality! Elements of Social Science. He lives in Canberra! Australia. Klappentext In the eighteenth century! the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical! ethical! and social aspects of circumcision. "Darby's fascinating and detailed book both chronicles this grisly story and tries to explain it. . . . As a social history of the relations between public anxieties and professional establishments, Darby's book could hardly be bettered."--Ben Knights "Men & Masculinity " Zusammenfassung In the eighteenth century! the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. Why does circumcision usually mean circumcision of infants? Why does the pressure for health circumcision continue? This book offers essential background to the debates about the medical! ethical! and social aspects of circumcision.

Product details

• Authors: Darby, Robert Darby, Darby Robert
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2013
• EAN: 9780226101101
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10110-1
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Sociology: customs & traditions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Cultural studies: customs and traditions