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'''Edgar J. Schoen''' ({{LifeData|1925|2016}}) was a [[Circumcised doctors| circumcised American Physician]] and worked as a Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.<ref>{{REFweb
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|url=http://directory.ucsf.edu/people_detail.jsp?FNO=Edgar.Schoen@ucsf.edu&retLink=1&school_code=all&last_name=schoen&first_name=&offset=0
}}</ref> This may have contributed to his being appointed as chairman of the new AAP task force on circumcision.
In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the Task Force on Circumcision by the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]],<ref>''American Journal of Diseases in Children'', Vol 141: 128. February 1987</ref> where he pushed for routine, non-therapeutic infant circumcision, but the neonatologists on Schoen's committee wouldn't go for it. According to Schoen, not performing circumcision would be "taking us back to nineteenth-century medicine on the eve of the 21st century," and that circumcision will prevent "dermatological problems".<ref name="Slack">{{REFjournal
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}}</ref> This was despite their own admission that evidence linking circumcision to prevention of any diseases was inconclusive, with the sole exception of penile cancer (which they noted was mainly caused by unhealthy lifestyles). Given Schoen's history of circumcision advocacy and his position as taskforce chair, he may have influenced the committee significantly.
== Television ==
Schoen appeared in Penn & Teller's show, "Bullshit" for their [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0672524/ circumcision episode]. Penn reported that Schoen said circumcised penises smell and look better.<ref>{{REFweb
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=== Circlist ===
Schoen has been noted sending emails to and from the [[Circlist]] email list.<ref>Schoen, E. (2006, April 22). ''My recent circ pubs'' [Online Forum Comment]. Retrieved from http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/MCIRC/message/16 [http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:MCIRC_-_Msg_16.pdf Archive]</ref> Circlist is a website and discussion group for men who sexually fantasize about performing and receiving circumcisions,<ref>[http://www.circumstitions.com/Glossary2.html Ben Winkie. (2005, June) ''International Circumsexual Symposium'', Washington, D.C.]</ref> often on small children.<ref>{{REFbook
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=== Gilgal Society ===
Schoen is also listed as approving content for a [[Gilgal Society]] brochure.<ref>{{REFbook
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== Office ==
Schoen's office was in the Julia Morgan building on Broadway that houses [[Kaiser Permanente]]'s genetics department in San Fransico. Only a few yards from the home office of [[Daniel Halperin]], assistant professor of anthropology at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPDS).<ref name="Slack"/>
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