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[[File:RobertDarby.jpg|thumb|Robert Darby]]
'''Robert J. John L. Darby''' {{BA}}, {{BLitt}}, {{PhD}} ({{LifeData|birth=1953|birthplace=Melbourne|death=2019-03|deathplace=Canberra, ACT|deathcountry=Australia}}<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://wwwnla.gov.legacyau/nla.comobj-245711800/findingaid#biographical-note |title=Papers of Robert Darby: Biographical Note |publisher=TROVE |accessdate=2022-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |url=https:/obituaries/namewww.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/roberton-the-death-of-dr-rob-darby-obituary?pid/ |title=On the Death of Dr. Rob Darby |last=Geisheker |init=191916659John |titleauthor-link=Robert John DarbyGeisheker |publisher=Canberra Times[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |date=2019-0304-25 |accessdate=2022-06-2701}}</ref>) was an independent scholar and freelance writer from Canberra, the capital of [[Australia]]. He began his writing and research career as a literary historian, with a {{PhD}} on Australian literature and politics in the 1960s, but his interests have broadened since then to include many topics in cultural, social and medical history, as well as ethics and current affairs. His major published work so far has been a detailed account of the rise and fall of routine non-therapeutic "health" [[circumcision ]] in [[United Kingdom| Britain ]] ([[A surgical temptationSurgical Temptation]], 2005), and since then he has written widely on medical, historical and ethical aspects of both male and female circumcision - which he regard as primarily a [[human rights]] and social justice issue, not really a medical issue at all. He is also author of "[[The sorcererSorcerer's apprenticeApprentice]]: Why can't the [[United States ]] stop circumcising boys?"His writings fully qualify him to hold the title of [[Intactivist]].
He also prepared a collection of the medical writings of Arthur Conan Doyle,'' Round the Red Lamp'' (Valancourt Books, 2007), and an edited edition of ''Elements of Social Science'' by the great Victorian iconoclast George Drysdale.
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|title=The Ribble Riddle of the Sands
|journal=New Zealand Medical Journal
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|title=[[A surgical temptationSurgical Temptation]]: The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain |publisher={{UNI|University of Chicago |UChicago}} Press
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|title=[[The sorcererSorcerer's apprenticeApprentice]]: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys?
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|year=2013
|date=2013-06-18
|accessdate=2020-01-05
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* [[Australia]]
* [[History of Circumcision]]