Tenets of Osteopathic Medicine: Difference between revisions

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===4. Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation and the interrelationship of structure and function.===

When these basic principles are applied, it will quickly be seen that harmful medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is contraindicated.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal

|last=Hill

|first=

|init=G

|author-link=George Hill

|title=The case against circumcision

|journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender

|date=2007

|volume=4

|issue=3

|pages=318-23

|url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912

|quote=Finally, we must remember that males are the more vulnerableand sensitive of the two genders and, therefore, deserve the greater degree of protection from traumatic, invasive, injurious, and unnecessary surgery.

|format=PDF

|accessdate=2026-03-18

}}</ref> <ref name="andersen2026">{{REFjournal

|last=Andersen-Giberson

|init=D

|author-link=Dale Andersen

|url=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786/36016

|title=Circumcision and forced disability: Routine male neonatal circumcision and the consequences of amputation within a critical disability studies framework

|journal=Critical Disability Discourses

|date=2025-12

|volume=10

|issue=2

|pages=1-37

|URL=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786/36016

|DOI=https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.39786

|accessdate=2026-03-12

|quote=In a critical disability studies framework, it is argued that the act of amputating healthy erogenous tissue and the consequences of that amputation cause disability, particularly from a counter-hegemonic lens.

|format=PDF

|accessdate=2026-03-12

}}</ref>

* [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]]

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 ===4. Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation and the interrelationship of structure and function.===
+When these basic principles are applied, it will quickly be seen that harmful medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] of boys is contraindicated.<ref name="hill2007">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Hill
+ |first=
+ |init=G
+ |author-link=George Hill
+ |title=The case against circumcision
+ |journal=Journal of Men's Health and Gender
+ |date=2007
+ |volume=4
+ |issue=3
+ |pages=318-23
+ |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=04ace5046cc27f01b8fbe4aa359c059778983912
+ |quote=Finally, we must remember that males are the more vulnerableand sensitive of the two genders and, therefore, deserve the greater degree of protection from traumatic, invasive, injurious, and unnecessary surgery.
+ |format=PDF
+ |accessdate=2026-03-18
+}}</ref> <ref name="andersen2026">{{REFjournal
+ |last=Andersen-Giberson
+ |init=D
+ |author-link=Dale Andersen
+ |url=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786/36016
+ |title=Circumcision and forced disability: Routine male neonatal circumcision and the consequences of amputation within a critical disability studies framework
+ |journal=Critical Disability Discourses
+ |date=2025-12
+ |volume=10
+ |issue=2
+ |pages=1-37
+ |URL=https://cdd.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cdd/article/view/39786/36016
+ |DOI=https://doi.org/10.25071/1918-6215.39786
+ |accessdate=2026-03-12
+ |quote=In a critical disability studies framework, it is argued that the act of amputating healthy erogenous tissue and the consequences of that amputation cause disability, particularly from a counter-hegemonic lens.
+ |format=PDF
+ |accessdate=2026-03-12
+}}</ref>
 {{SEEALSO}}
 * [[Psychiatrist Discusses the Lasting Trauma of Circumcision]]