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|doi=10.1542/peds.2016-1484 | |doi=10.1542/peds.2016-1484 | ||
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}}</ref> An infant circumcision neither diagnoses nor treats disease because no disease exists, so a surrogate consent for | }}</ref> An infant circumcision neither diagnoses nor treats disease because no disease exists, so a [[surrogate consent]] for [[circumcision of the newborn]] may be invalid. | ||
== Common law background == | == Common law background == | ||
Blackstone (1765) stated in his ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'': | Blackstone (1765) stated in his ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'': | ||