Fifth International Symposium

The Fifth International Symposium convened at the University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom on 5-7 August 1998.

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

— F. M. Hodges

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Phimosis

— S. C. Donnell

• Anaesthesia for Circumcision: A Review of the Literature

— R. S. Van Howe

• Neonatal Circumcision and HIV Infection

— R. S. Van Howe

Section 4. Genital Mutilation: Religious and Cultural Considerations

• Muslims’ Genitalia in the Hands of the Clergy: Religious Arguments about Male and Female Circumcision

— S. A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlich

• Evangelical Christianity and Its Relation to Infant Male Circumcision

— J. D. Bigelow

• 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

— G. C. Denniston

• 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

— Christopher Fletcher|C. R. Fletcher

• Facing Circumcision: Eight Physicians Tell Their Stories

— B. Katz Sperlich and M. Conant

• Neonatal Circumcision 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)

— J. P. Warren

• 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

— S. Abd el Salam

• The History of Circumcision in the United States: A Physician’s Perspective

— M. L. Sorrells

• 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

— R. S. Van Howe

• An Analysis of Bias Regarding Circumcision in American Medical Literature

— P. M. Fleiss

• 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

— J. S. Svoboda

• Some Thoughts on Legal Remedies

— D. J. Llewellyn

• The Doctor as Expert Witness in United States Courts

— J. L. Snyder

• The Oxford Declaration: A Call for the Prohibition of the Genital Mutilation of Children

— Charles 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.

See also

• 1989: First International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1991: Second International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1994: Third International Symposium on Circumcision
• 1996: Fourth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 1998: Fifth International Symposium on Sexual Mutilations
• 2000: Sixth International Symposium on Genital Integrity
• 2002: Seventh International Symposium on Human Rights and Modern Society
• 2004: Eighth International Symposium on Circumcision and Human Rights
• 2006: Ninth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2008: Tenth International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2010: Eleventh International Symposium on Circumcision, Genital Integrity, and Human Rights
• 2012: Twelfth International Symposium on Law, Genital Autonomy, and Human Rights
• 2014: Thirteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2016: Fourteenth International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2018: Fifteenth International Symposium‎‎ on Genital Autonomy and Children's Rights
• 2022: Sixteenth International Symposium on Child Genital Cutting