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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, {{FACS}}, from Acron, OH, was an obstetrician.
'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', {{MD}}, from Acron, {{USSC|OH}}, was an obstetrician.


== Circumcision promotion ==
== Circumcision promotion ==
In 1953, he and [[Richard L. Miller]] published an influential paper in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, calling for the [[Routine Infant Circumcision|immediate circumcision of all males straight after birth]]. Ignoring [[Douglas Gairdner|Gairdner]] and relying heavily on the writings of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst|Wolbarst]], they insisted that “[[phimosis]]” required immediate surgical correction, and asserted that [[circumcision]] would “reduce the incidence of [[masturbation|onanism]]”, heighten male libido and “increase longevity and immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness.”
In 1953, he and [[Richard L. Miller]] published an influential paper in the ''American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology'', calling for the [[Routine Infant Circumcision|immediate circumcision of all males straight after birth]]. Ignoring [[Douglas Gairdner|Gairdner]] and relying heavily on the writings of [[Abraham L. Wolbarst|Wolbarst]], they insisted that “[[phimosis]]” required immediate surgical correction, and asserted that [[circumcision]] would “reduce the incidence of [[masturbation|onanism]]”, heighten male libido and “increase longevity and immunity to nearly all physical and mental illness.”


They also stated that [[circumcision]] immediately after birth was convenient for the doctor and in the financial best interests of the hospital. Leading obstetrical textbooks were soon rewritten to include Miller and Snyder’s recommendations.
They also stated that [[circumcision]] immediately after birth was convenient for the doctor and in the financial best interests of the hospital. Leading obstetrical textbooks were soon rewritten to include Miller and Snyder’s recommendations.
==Contraindications==
Spence (1970) carried out a large scale study regardig immediate circumcision after birth. They study found that holding the newborn infant in the delivery room for circumcision resulted in chilling of the infant.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Spence
|first=George R.
|init=
|author-link=
|etal=no
|title=Chilling of newborn infants: its relation to circumcision immediately following birth
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=South Med J
|location=
|date=1970-03
|season=
|volume=63
|issue=3
|article=
|page=
|pages=309-11
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/complications/spence1/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=5415184
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.1097/00007611-197003000-00014
|accessdate=2022/07/21
}}</ref>The practice of immediate circumcision after birth appears to have fallen into disrepute and may no longer be practiced.


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{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
* [[Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital]]
* [[Circumcision]]
* [[Human rights]]
* [[Intactivism]]
* [[Obstetricians and the American circumcision scandal]]
* [[United States of America]]
* [[Your Whole Baby]]
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