Sixth International Symposium
The Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity convened at the University of Sydney, Sidney, New South Wales, Australia on December 7-9, 2000.
Proceedings
0800–0900: Registration
0900–0915: Welcome and Opening Remarks• Marilyn Milos and George Williams
0915–1000: Keynote Address: Ending Enforced Genital Cutting of Children and Violation of Their Human Rights: Ethical, Psychological and Legal Considerations• Gregory J. Boyle
1000–1115: An Overview • George Williams, Moderator
Historical Revisionism in Recent Medical History: An Exposé and Analysis • Frederick Mansfield Hodges
A Source of Serious Mischief: The Demonisation of the Foreskin and the Rise of Preventive Circumcision in Australia, 1880–1930 • Robert Darby
Compulsion to Circumcise is Constant, the Reasons Keep Changing • Michael Katz
1115–1130: Break
1130–1300: Legal and Ethical Considerations of Genital Mutilation • George Williams, Moderator
Comparative Legal Analysis of Body Mutilation Practices on Children • J. Steven Svoboda
Equal Protection Case Studies in the Scope and Limit of Gender-Based Discrimination Under State and Federal Constitutions • Zenas Baer
Human Rights of Children in the New Millennium: Legal Developments in the Fight for Children’s Genital Integrity Throughout the World • Charles Bonner
Doctors, Be Warned! Circumcise Today and You Could Be Sued Tomorrow! • J. Neville Turner
1300–1430: Lunch
1430–1600: Religious Considerations • Tina Kimmel, Moderator
An Epistolary Debate with David Ben Gurion About Jewish Circumcision: The Psychoanalytic Outlook • Moisés Tractenberg
Attitude, Knowledge, and Change Among Israeli Jewish Students Regarding Male Genital Mutilation • Avshalom Zoossmann-Diskin, Avraham Kahana, Ronit Tamir Bris Shalem:
Toward a Covenant of Wholeness • Samuel Richmond
Limitations to Practices of a Belief or Religion in International Human Rights Law – Case Study: Genital Mutilation in the Judaic Tradition • LeYoni Junos
1600–1615: Break
1615–1700: Breaking Through Medical and Media Bias• Tina Kimmel, Moderator
The White Coat of Silence: How to Create Change in Medical School Curricula and Survive Physician Opposition • Norma Wilcox
The Struggle for Media Access and International Recognition • Shelton Harrison Walden
1700–1730: Discussion
0800–0900: Registration
0900–1115: International News • Peter Ball, Moderator
A Review of Circumcision in New Zealand: “I never liked doing them and I was pleased to give it up.”• Hugh Young and Kenneth A. McGrath
Circumcision Rates in UK Males • John Warreny
Prevention of Genital Mutilation: A Community Research and Development Project in Northern Ireland • Linda Massie
Circumcision of Boys in Sweden: Proposal for Government Regulation • Yngve Hofvander
Prince for a Day: The Sumbawa Circumcision Ritual• Royal Phillips
Discussion
1115–1130: Break
1130–1300: Female Genital Mutilation• Juliana Nkrumah, Moderator
FGM: Getting the Debate Happening at the Grassroots – The Australian Experience • Juliana Nkrumah
Egyptian Intellectuals and Genital Integrity• Seham Abd el Salam Mohammed
Female Circumcision: Its Effects on the Reproductive Health of Adolescents • Pandy Ndimwibo
The Struggle Against Female Genital Mutilation/Female Circumcision: The European Experience • Els Leye
1300-1430: Lunch
1430-1545: Female Genital Mutilation (continued)Sunna Budnin:
An Alternative Ritual to Infibulation,Invented and Carried Out in the Merka District, Somalia• Pia Grassivaro Gallo and Franco Viviani
Genital Mutilation of Children: Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going? • Hanny Lightfoot-Klein
1545-1630: International Symposia on Genital Integrity Award Presentations • Marilyn Milos, Moderator
1630–1645: Break
1645–1730: Address of the Recipient of the Human Rights Award: Over 100% Circumcision Rate: The Short and Bizarre History of South Korean Circumcision DaiSik Kim, Myung-Geol Pang, Sae Chul Kim
0800–0900: Registration
0900–1115: Psychological Aspects of Genital Mutilation• Gregory J. Boyle, Moderator
Sigmund Freud, Male Circumcision and the Mind: A Psychoanalytic Review • George Williams Physical, Sexual, and Psychological Impact of Male Infant Circumcision: An Exploratory Study • Gillian A. Bensley and Gregory J. Boyle
Neonatal Circumcision: Long-Term Harmful Effects• Tracey Gemmel and Gregory J. Boyle
Ritual and Medical Circumcision Among Filipino Boys: Evidence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Samuel M. Ramos and Gregory J. Boyle
Counselling Approaches for Acute Post-Circumcision Stress Disorder: A Case Study • Brett McCann and Peter Lawrence
How to Respond to the Doctor Who Says You Must Circumcise Your Son • Paul Fleiss
1115–1130: Break
1130–1300: What Exactly Is Lost With Genital Cutting? • Morris Sorrells, Moderator
Separation of the Two Sensory Platforms of the Human Penis• Kenneth A. McGrath
A Novel Research Study in Assessing Penile Sensitivity/Insensitivity Without a Measuring Device • Peter Lawrence
Touch-Test Sensory Evaluation Research: Preliminary Findings• Morris Sorrells and Tina Kimmel
Discussion
1300–1430: Lunch
1430–1500: Addressing the Wounds • Peter Ball, Moderator
Assaulted and Mutilated: A Personal Account of Circumcision Trauma • Shane Peterson
1500-1630: Concurrent Session A: Male Genital Mutilation and Foreskin Restoration • Peter Ball, Moderator
Circumcision: A Festering Wound • Daniel H. Bollinger, III
Current Foreskin Restoration Practices in Australia • John M. Aldous
A report on the evolution and growth of foreskin restoration in Sydney Australia, since 1994 • Peter Lawrence
Doctors, File Information, and Activists Can be Worse than the Circumciser’s Knife • William Sides
Foreskin Restoration: a video • Peter Ball
1500–1630: Concurrent Session B: The Role of Women in Ending Genital Mutilation • Jeannine Parvati Baker, Mary Conant, Linda Massie, Marilyn Fayre Milos, Moderators
1630–1645: Break
1645–1730: Closing Keynote Address: Circumcision as a Part of the Normative Abuse of Children: Essentials for Transforming the Lives of Children John W. Travis
17:30–1800: Closing: Jeannine Parvati Baker
The proceedings are published in Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem, edited by George C. Denniston, Frederick Mansfield Hodges, and Marilyn Fayre Milos, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2001.
Symposium organisers
Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, Dr. George Williams, NOCIRC of Australia, Dr. Gregory J. Boyle, Bond University, and Dr. Frederick Hodges, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford.