Circumcision study flaws: Difference between revisions

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==US statements==
==US statements==


The United States is unique because the American medical industry has been promoting the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision since the late 19th Century. As a result of the centuries-old promotion almost all American males were circumcised soon after birth from the 1930s through the 1980s.<ref name="laumann1996">{{REFjournal
The United States is unique because the American medical industry has been promoting the practice of non-therapeutic circumcision since the late 19th Century.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Gollaher
|first=David
|author-link=
|title= From ritual to science: the medical transformation of circumcision in America
|journal=Journal of Social History
|date=1994
|volume=28
|issue=1
|pages=5-36
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/gollaher/
|accessdate=2020-08-02
}}</ref> As a result of the centuries-old promotion almost all American males were circumcised soon after birth from the 1930s through the 1980s.<ref name="laumann1996">{{REFjournal
  |last=Laumann
  |last=Laumann
  |first=Edward O.
  |first=Edward O.
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  |title=Circumcision in the United States
  |title=Circumcision in the United States
  |trans-title=
  |trans-title=
  |language=
  |language=English
  |journal=JAMA
  |journal=JAMA
  |location=
  |location=