Fifth International Symposium
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The Fifth International Symposium convened at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom on 5-7 August 1998.
Contents
Proceedings
Section 1. Keynote Address
- Evolutionary Cultural Ethics and Circumcision of Children
- — N. Toubia
Section 2. The Anatomy, Physiology, and Histology of the Human Prepuce
- Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Penis
- — S. Scott
- Anatomy and Histology of the Penile and Clitoral Prepuce in Primates: Evolutionary Perspective of Specialized Sensory Tissue of the External Genitalia
- — C. J. Cold and K. A. McGrath
- Significance and Function of Preputial Langerhans Cells
- — G. L. Williams
Section 3. Current Research on Circumcision and Phimosis
- The History of Phimosis from Antiquity to the Present
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis
- — S. C. Donnell
- Anaesthesia for Circumcision: A Review of the Literature
- Neonatal Circumcision and HIV Infection
Section 4. Genital Mutilation: Religious and Cultural Considerations
- Muslims’ Genitalia in the Hands of the Clergy: Religious Arguments about Male and Femle Circumcision
- Evangelical Christianity and Its Relation to Infant Male Circumcision
- A Jewish Perspective on Circumcision
- — J. Goodman
- Circumcision: An African Point of View
- — G. B. Tangwa
- Unifying Language: Religious and Cultural Considerations
- — J. P. Baker
Section 5. Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation
- Motivations for Modifications of the Human Body
- — G. Zwang
- Psychoanalysis of Circumcision
- — M. Tractenberg
- Post Trumatic Stress Disorder After Genital Medical Procedures
- — J. Menage
- Tyranny of the Victims: An Analysis of Circumcision Advocacy
- Epidemiological, Medical, Legal, and Psychological Aspects of Mutilated/At-Risk Girls in Italy: A Bioethical Focus
- — P. Grassivaro Gallo, L. Araldi, F. Viviani, and R. Gaddini
- Circumcision in America in 1998: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Charges of American Physicians
- Facing Circumcision: Eight Physicians Tell Their Stories
- — B. Katz Sperlich and M. Conant
- Neonatal from a Primal Health Research Perspective
- — M. Odent
- Celebrating Phallos: Healing Men and Culture
- — J. Zoske
Section 6. Foreskin Restoration: Historical and Contemporary Considerations
- The History of Foreskin Restoration
- — D. Schultheiss
- Current Practices in Foreskin Restoration: The State of Affairs in the United States, and Results of a Survey of Restoring Men
- — R. W. Griffiths
- Foreskin Restoration (Circumcision Reversal)
- The Man Behind Restoration
- — M. M. Lander
Section 7. The World-Wide Campaign to End Genital Mutilation
- A Comprehensive Approach for Communication about Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt
- The History of Circumcision in the United States: A Physician’s Perspective
- Genital Mutilation in Ireland: A Public Health and Human Rights Report
- — L. Massie
- Challenges to Circumcision in Israel: The Israeli Association Against Genital Mutilation
- — A. Zoossmann-Diskin and R. Blustein
- Activism on the World Wide Web: The Role of the Internet in the Dissemination of Circumcision-Related Information
- — M. M. Sarkis
Section 8. Current Problems in Medical Publications
- Peer-Review Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Publishing: Subverting the Dominant Paradigm
- An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature
- Publication on Circumcision in the Medical Literature: The Role of an Editor
- — H. N. Whitfield
Section 9. Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation
- Circumcision and Virtue Ethics
- — M. M. Lander
- Respect in the Context of Infant Male Circumcisiion: Can Ethics and Law Provide Insights?
- — M. A. Somerville
- Male Non-Therapeutic Circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues
- — C. Price
- Attaining International Acknowledgment of Male Genital Mutilation as a Human Rights Violation, and a Written Intervention
- Some Thoughts on Legal Remedies
- The Doctor as Expert Witness in United States Courts
- The Oxford Declaration: A Call for the Prohibition of the Genital Mutilatiion of Children
- — C. A. Bonner
The proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations have been published in Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers 1999. New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow (ISBN: 0-306-46131-5).
Sponsor
The Symposium was sponsored by the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers.