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==Early life== | ==Early life== | ||
Brian Morris was born in South Australia in 1950. In accordance with the then prevailing standard practice, he received a medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>This information was formerly posted on his website, but has been removed.</ref> It was not the practice to use anaesthesia or analgesic at that time because doctors then falsely believed that infants could not feel pain. | Brian Morris was born in South Australia in 1950. In accordance with the then prevailing standard practice, he received a medically unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref>This information was formerly posted on his website, but has been removed.</ref> It was not the practice to use anaesthesia or analgesic at that time because doctors then falsely believed that infants could not feel pain.<ref>{{REFjournal | ||
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| journal=The American Association of Anesthesiologists Newsletter | |||
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}}</ref> Infant circumcision has been shown to be traumatic in many cases.<ref>{{REFjournal | |||
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| title=Psychic trauma of operations in children: and a note on combat neurosis | |||
| journal=Am J Dis Child | |||
| date=1945 | |||
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}}</ref><ref>{{REFjournal | |||
| last=Taddio | |||
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| coauthors=Katz J, Ilersich AL, Koren G | |||
| title=Effect of neonatal circumcision on pain response during subsequent routine vaccination | |||
| journal=Lancet | |||
| date=1997 | |||
| volume=349 | |||
| issue=9052 | |||
| pages=599-603 | |||
| url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/taddio2/ | |||
| quote=It is, therefore, possible that the greater vaccination response in the infants circumcised without anaesthesia may represent an infant analogue of a post-traumatic stress disorder triggered by a traumatic and painful event and re-experienced under similar circumstances of pain during vaccination. | |||
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| DOI=10.1016/S0140-6736(96)10316-0 | |||
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}}</ref> The extent of little Brian's trauma, if any, is not known. | |||
Brian Morris may be a victim of circumcision. | |||
==Using Sydney University Prestige to Silence Dissent== | ==Using Sydney University Prestige to Silence Dissent== | ||