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==Effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision== | |||
The focus then turned to investigation of the effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision. Doctors falsely believed that newborn infants could not feel pain,<ref name="cope">{{REFjournal | |||
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|title=Neonatal Pain: The Evolution of an Idea | |||
|journal=The American Association of Anesthesiologists Newsletter | |||
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}}</ref> so they blamed the observed effects on "stress", not pain. | |||
Luther, Kraybill & Potter (1976) tested cortisol and cortisone in the blood of newborn infants before and after circumcision. Dramatic increases in cortisol and a lesser increase in cortisone was recorded.<ref name="luther1976">{{REFjournal | |||
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|last2=Kraybill | |||
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|last3=Potter | |||
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|title=Adrenal cortical response to circumcision in the neonate | |||
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|journal=Obstet Gynecol | |||
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|date=1976 | |||
|volume=46 | |||
|issue=2 | |||
|pages=2018-10 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/talbert/ | |||
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