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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]' 1975 circumcision promotional statement<ref name="aap1975" /> was now getting long in the tooth so a newer statement was desired. The AAP appointed the late [[Edgar J. Schoen]], M.D., of Oakland, California, who had written a humorous poem about circumcision as the chairman of a new task force on circumcision. The task force had six members of whom five (83%), including Schoen, were believed to be Jewish, although Jews constitute only 1.9 percent of the population. | The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]]' 1975 circumcision promotional statement<ref name="aap1975" /> was now getting long in the tooth so a newer statement was desired. The AAP appointed the late [[Edgar J. Schoen]], M.D., of Oakland, California, who had written a humorous poem about circumcision as the chairman of a new task force on circumcision. The task force had six members of whom five (83%), including Schoen, were believed to be Jewish, although Jews constitute only 1.9 percent of the population. | ||
Schoen's task force produced the AAP's [[American_Academy_of_Pediatrics#Third_policy_.281989.29| third circumcision policy statement]] which was published in ''Pediatrics'' in November 1979.<ref name="aap1999">{{REFjournal | |||
|last=Schoen | |||
|first=Edgar J. | |||
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|author-link=Edgar J. Schoen | |||
|last2=Anderson | |||
|first2=Glenn | |||
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|last3=Bohon | |||
|first3=Constance | |||
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|last4=Hinman | |||
|first4=Frank | |||
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|last5=Poland | |||
|first5=Ronald | |||
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|last6=Wakeman | |||
|first6=E. Maurice | |||
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|title=Report of the Task Force of Circumcision. | |||
|journal=Pediatrics | |||
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|date=1989-11 | |||
|volume=84 | |||
|issue=4 | |||
|pages=388-91 | |||
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989 | |||
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|pubmedID=2664697 | |||
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|accessdate=2021-10-10 | |||
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