Peter Charles Remondino: Difference between revisions

The doctor has been vice-president of the State Medical Society, president of the Southern California Medical Society, and president of The San Diego County Medical Society, while he served two terms, eight years in all, as a member of the State Board of Health, and for thirty-five years was a member of the Board of the U. S. Pension Examiners. For twelve years he occupied the Chair of the History of Medicine and of Medical Bibliography in the Medical Department of the {{UNI|University of Southern California|USC}}, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Los Angeles.<ref name="remondinoautobiography"/>

== Remondino's History of Circumcision ==

Although Remondino professed Christianity, he advocated non-therapeutic Jewish [[circumcision]] for Christians as a measure for both moral and physical health.<ref>{{REFbook

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Remondino evidently detested the [[prepuce]], a normal, healthy, functional, human body part, which he described as:

Remondino's distaste and dislike for the prepuce or [[foreskin]] prompts one to ask how a man could tolerate having a  prepuce which he detested attached to his body? History does not tell us his circumcision status, but modern psychology may give us a clue. We now know that [[Adamant father syndrome| circumcised men who become fathers]] and [[circumcised doctors]] express a preference for circumcision as Remondino did. Moreover, circumcision is a traumatic procedure.<ref name="taddio1995">{{TaddioA etal 1995}}</ref> Traumatized persons have a compulsion to repeat the [[trauma]] on others.<ref name="vanderkolk1989">{{VanderKolkBA 1989}}</ref> Remondino performed numerous circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook

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}}</ref> Something compelled Remondino to write a large 346-page book to extol the alleged virtues and benefits of male [[circumcision]].

Remondino's behavior fits the profile of that of a [[circumcised]] doctor. If Remondino was circumcised, how would it have occurred? When Remondino was born in Turin in 1846, only Jews circumcised their infant boys, which was done by a ''[[mohel]]''. There is some speculation that Remondino was descended from Sephardic Jews, so he may have had a [[Brit Milah|ritual Jewish circumcision]].

}}</ref> started to perform circumcisions and popularized the surgery,<ref name="gollaher1994">{{GollaherDL 1994}}</ref> so he may have been circumcised as an adult. If he was indeed circumcised, then Remondino may be considered to be a victim of circumcision.