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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Gollaher, David, 1949- Circumcision. New York : Basic Books, c2000 (OCoLC)647206265 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Gollaher |
| ISBN: | 0465043976 9780465043972 0465026532 9780465026531 |
| OCLC Number: | 42040798 |
| Description: | xiv, 253 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | David L. Gollaher. |
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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.
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