Child Circumcision: An Elephant in the Hospital: Difference between revisions

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# Easier Surgical Procedures. The discovery in 1885 of hypodermic cocaine as a local anaesthetic made it easier for doctors without expertise in the use of chloroform to perform minor surgeries. Several mechanically-aided [[circumcision]] techniques, forerunners of modern clamp-based circumcision methods, were first published in the medical literature of the 1890s, allowing surgeons to perform circumcisions more safely and successfully.

Circumcision was at a statistical height of about 75% of the country from 1950 to 1970. Today it is becoming less popular, partially because of high numbers of Hispanic immigrants, and growing opposition in the more progressive northeast and west (it remains ~~overwhelmingly~~ common in the Midwest). Today, the [[Medical trade association| major medical societies]] in the [[USA]] do not recommend elective non-therapeutic infant circumcision. This has long also been the case in the rest of the English-speaking world, which has never seen circumcision rates as high as the [[United States]].

Circumcision was at a statistical height of about 75% of the country from 1950 to 1970. Today it is becoming less popular, partially because of high numbers of Hispanic immigrants, and growing opposition in the more progressive northeast and west. (Although it has declined to some extent, it remains very common in the Midwest.) Today, the [[Medical trade association| major medical societies]] in the [[USA]] do not recommend elective non-therapeutic infant circumcision. This has long also been the case in the rest of the English-speaking world, which has never seen circumcision rates as high as the [[United States]].

* [[Circumcision: Elephant in the Hospital]]

* [[Pain]]

* [[Trauma]]

* [[United States of America]]

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 # Easier Surgical Procedures. The discovery in 1885 of hypodermic cocaine as a local anaesthetic made it easier for doctors without expertise in the use of chloroform to perform minor surgeries. Several mechanically-aided [[circumcision]] techniques, forerunners of modern clamp-based circumcision methods, were first published in the medical literature of the 1890s, allowing surgeons to perform circumcisions more safely and successfully.
-Circumcision was at a statistical height of about 75% of the country from 1950 to 1970. Today it is becoming less popular, partially because of high numbers of Hispanic immigrants, and growing opposition in the more progressive northeast and west (it remains overwhelmingly common in the Midwest). Today, the [[Medical trade association| major medical societies]] in the [[USA]] do not recommend elective non-therapeutic infant circumcision. This has long also been the case in the rest of the English-speaking world, which has never seen circumcision rates as high as the [[United States]].
+Circumcision was at a statistical height of about 75% of the country from 1950 to 1970. Today it is becoming less popular, partially because of high numbers of Hispanic immigrants, and growing opposition in the more progressive northeast and west. (Although it has declined to some extent, it remains very common in the Midwest.) Today, the [[Medical trade association| major medical societies]] in the [[USA]] do not recommend elective non-therapeutic infant circumcision. This has long also been the case in the rest of the English-speaking world, which has never seen circumcision rates as high as the [[United States]].
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 * [[Circumcision: Elephant in the Hospital]]
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+* [[Trauma]]
 * [[United States of America]]
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