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'''Egdar Edgar J. Schoen''' ({{LifeData|1925-|2016}}) was an a [[Circumcised doctors|circumcised American Physician ]] and worked as a Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.<ref>{{REFweb | quote= | 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 | title=UCSF On-line Campus Directory: People Search | last= | first= | publisher= | website= | date= | accessdate=2011-05-27}}</ref> Schoen had a humorous poem about circumcision published in 1986.<ref name="schoen1986">{{REFjournal |last=Schoen |first=E.G. |author-link=Edgar J. Schoen |title=Ode to the Circumcised Male |journal=Am J Dis Child |date=1986 |volume=141 |issue= |page=128 |url=http://www.cirp.org/literature/schoen-ode.html |accessdate=2019-10-11}}</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 Association 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".<refname="Slack">{{REFjournal | last=Slack | first=Gordy | coauthors= | title=The Case For Circumcision | journal=Express Online | volume= | issue= | pages= | url=http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_%281999-2000%29.pdf | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=2000-05-19 | accessdate=2019-10-03

| quote= | url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statements/aap/#a1989 | title=AAP 1989 | last= | first= | publisher= | website= | date=1989 | accessdate=2020-03-18}}</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. In 1999, the  The 1989 AAP revised their circumcision policy statementwas not well received. Professor Ronald Poland, M. D. Their newer statement was more conservative about circumcision's potential benefits, saying that they did not outweigh another member of the procedureAAP task force rejected Schoen's advocacy of non-therapeutic circumcision and published his own risks, and recommended leaving the decision to parents based on their cultural traditions, paper in addition to the medical factorswhich he argued against circumcision.<ref>{{REFwebREFjournal | quotelast=Poland |first=Ronald L |author-link= |title=The question of routine neonatal circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=N Engl J Med |date=1990 |volume=322 |issue= |pages=1312-1315 | url=http://www.cirp.org/library/statementsgeneral/aap1999poland/ | titlequote=AAP 1999 | lastpubmedID=2183058 | firstpubmedCID= | publisher= | website= | dateDOI=10.1056/NEJM199005033221811 | accessdate=2019-10-11

Schoen died in his sleepIn 1999, the AAP revised their circumcision policy statement. Their newer statement was more conservative about circumcision's potential benefits, saying that they did not outweigh the procedure's own risks, and recommended leaving the decision to parents based on August 23 of 2016their cultural traditions, surrounded by his familyin addition to the medical factors.<ref>{{REFweb | quote= | url=http://www.legacycirp.comorg/library/obituariesstatements/sfgateaap1999/obituary |title=AAP 1999 |last= |first= |publisher= |website= |date= |accessdate=}}</ref> Schoen's advocacy of circumcision had been thoroughly rejected prior to his death.aspx?n<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Hill |first=edgarGeorge |author-jlink=George Hill |last2=Geisheker |first2=John V. |author2-schoen&pidlink=John V. Geisheker |etal=181188231&no | title=ObituaryEdgar Schoen does not represent the North American view of male circumcision | lasttrans-title= | firstlanguage= | publisherjournal=Arch Dis Child | websitelocation= | date=Jan 2006 |volume=91 |issue=1 |page=92 |url=https://adc.bmj.com/content/91/1/92?int_source=trendmd&int_medium=cpc&int_campaign=usage-042019 |quote= |pubmedID=16371387 |pubmedCID=2083089 |DOI= | accessdate=2019-10-23

| quote= | url=http://youtube.com?watch=vLGcqPE7xu0?t=7m50s | title=Penn & Teller on Circumcision | last= | first= | publisher=YouTube | website=kunavu | date=2011-05-25 | accessdate=2011-09-25

| Title=Schoen's Poetry | Text=It's a great work of art like the statue of Venus

| Author= | Source=| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://youtube.com?watch=jI3oa4Mx9hs?t=50s kunavu. (2001, May 25). Penn & teller on circumcision part 2.]</ref>

| last=Thomas | first=A. | year=2005 | title=Circumcision: An Ethomedical Study | url=http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php/File:Gilgal_porn.pdf | editor=Vernon Quaintance | edition=4 | volume= | chapter=Case histories and experiences of circumcision | pagespage=191 | location=London, England | publisher=The Gilgal Society | isbn= | quote= | accessdate= | note=EMS-EN 0304-2

}}</ref> Groups such as the [[Gilgal Society]] openly admit to a morbid fascination with circumcision to the point of sado-masochistic fetish. These groups advertise that doctors are among their members. There are those on the Internet who discuss the erotic stimulation they experience by watching other males being circumcised, swap fiction and about it, and trade in videotapes of actual circumcisions.<ref>{{REFbook |last=Price |first=Christopher P Price. Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In |year=1999 |title=Male and Female Circumcision, - Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice ( |url=https://www.springer.com/de/book/9780306461316 |work= |editor=[[George C. Denniston|Denniston GC]], [[Frederick M. Hodges|Hodges FM and ]], [[Marilyn Fayre Milos|Milos MF eds.) ]] |edition= |volume= |chapter=Male Non-therapeutic circumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues |pages=425-454 |location=New York: |publisher=Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999: 425-454. |isbn= |quote= |accessdate= |note=[http://www.cirp.org/library/legal/price2/Web version]}}</ref>

 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>{{REFjournal | lastname="Slack | first=Gordy | coauthors= | title=The Case For Circumcision | journal=Express Online | volume= | issue= | pages= | url=http://pool.intactiwiki.org/index.php"/File:Edgar_Schoen_%26_Daniel_Halperin_(1999-2000).pdf | quote= | pubmedID= | pubmedCID= | DOI= | date=2000-05-19 | accessdate=}}</ref>

| Title=Circumcision | Text=It’s like apple pie. It’s part of being American. | Author=Schoen | Source=J Weekly| lang=| before=| after=| Transcription=| Translation= | ref=<ref>[http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61692/both-sides-of-the-debate-two-jewish-doctors-offer-opinions-on-circumcision/ Pine. (2011-5-5). Both sides of the debate: Two Jewish doctors offer opinions on circumcision. ''J Weekly.'']</ref>

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