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[[File:RobertDarby.jpg|thumb|Robert Darby]]'''Robert John L. Darby''' {{BA}}, {{BLitt}}, {FromIntactWiki{PhD}} ({{LifeData|birth=1953|birthplace=Melbourne|death=2019-03|deathplace=Canberra, ACT|deathcountry=Australia}}<ref>{{REFweb |Titleurl=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-245711800/findingaid#biographical-note |title=Papers of Robert Darby: Biographical Note |URLpublisher=httpTROVE |accessdate=2022-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |url=https://intactwikiwww.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/won-the-death-of-dr-rob-darby/index |title=On the Death of Dr. Rob Darby |last=Geisheker |init=John |author-link=John Geisheker |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.php?titleO.C.)]] |date=Robert_Darby&oldid2019-04-25 |accessdate=21422022-06-01}}</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 non-therapeutic "health" [[circumcision]] in [[United Kingdom| Britain]] ([[A Surgical 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 Sorcerer's Apprentice]]: Why can't the [[United States]] stop circumcising boys?" His writings fully qualify him to hold the title of [[Intactivist]].

'''Robert Darby''' ({{LifeData|death=2019-03|deathplace=Canberra, ACT|deathcountry=Australia}}<ref>[https://tributes.canberratimes.com.au/obituaries/canberratimes-au/obituary.aspx?n=robert-john-darby&pid=191916659| Robert John Darby] Canberra Times, March 27, 2019.</ref>) was an independent scholar and freelance writer from in Canberra, the capital of Australia. He began his writing and research career as also prepared a literary historian, with a PhD on Australian literature and politics in collection of the 1930s, but his interests have broadened since then to include many topics in cultural, social and medical historywritings of Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as ethics and current affairs. His major published work so far has been a detailed account of '' Round the rise and fall of routine "health" circumcision in Britain Red Lamp'' ([[A surgical temptation]]Valancourt Books, 20052007), and since then he has written widely on medical, historical and ethical aspects an edited edition 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 ''Elements of "[[The sorcererSocial Science's apprentice]]: Why can't by the United States stop circumcising boys?"great Victorian iconoclast George Drysdale.

He also prepared a collection {{PUB}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/2002-09_Darby-BeenThereDoneThat.pdf |title=Been There, Done That: Thoughts on the proposition that yet more circumcision can save the world from AIDS |journal=Australian Quarterly |date=2002-09 |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=26-35 |accessdate=2021-05-08}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=The masturbation taboo and the rise of the medical writings routine male circumcision: A review of Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp (Valancourt Bookshistoriography |journal=J Soc Hist |date=2003 |volume=36 |pages=737-57 |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/darby4/ |accessdate=2021-05-02}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=Pathologizing Male Sexuality: Lallemand, 2007)Spermatorrhea, and an edited edition the Rise of Elements Circumcision |journal=Journal of Social Science by the great Victorian iconoclast George DrysdaleHistory of Medicine |date=2005-07 |volume=60 |pages=283-319 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15917258/ |pubmedID=15917258 |DOI=10.1093/jhmas/jri042 |accessdate=2021-05-08}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. His most recent article was "[http |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |url=https://jmehoodieorhelmet.bmjweebly.com/contentuploads/1/2/2/3/early122384313/the_riddle_of_the_sands_circumcision_his.pdf |title=The Riddle of the Sands |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal |date=2005-07-15 |volume=116 |issue=1218 |pages=1-7 |accessdate=2021-06-25}}* {{REFbook |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=[[A Surgical Temptation]]: The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain |publisher={{UNI|University of Chicago|UChicago}} Press |year=2005}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |last2=Cozijn |first2=John |init2=J |author2-link= |title=The British Royal Family’s Circumcision Tradition: Genesis and Evolution of a Contemporary Legend |journal=Sage |date=2013-10-16 |url=https:/01/29journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244013508960 |DOI=10.1177/medethics2158244013508960 |accessdate=2021-201205-10118217}}* {{REFbook |last=Darby |first=Robert J.shortL. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys?g |publisher=Kindle |year=2013}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=w_jme_ahead_tab The child's right to an open future: Is the principle applicable to non-therapeutic circumcision]" |url=https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/7/463.short?g=w_jme_ahead_tab |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics |volume=39 |pages=415-415 |DOI=10.1136/medethics-2013-101605 |date=2013-06-18 |accessdate=2020-01-05}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first= |init=R |author-link=Robert Darby |etal=no |title=To avoid circumcision complications, avoid circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Can Urol Assoc J |location= |date=2014-08-14 |volume=8 |issue=7-8 |article= |page=231 |pages= |url=https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1709/1823 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.5489/cuaj.1709 |accessdate=2022-12-16}}*{{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |etal=no |title=Risks, Benefits, published Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors in the Journal Current Debate on Non-Therapeutic Circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Kennedy Institute of Medical Ethics, July 2013Journal |location= |date=2015-03 |volume=25 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=1-34 |url=https://kiej.georgetown.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/03_25.1darby.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=25843118 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1353/ken.2015.0004 |accessdate=2021-07-16}}* {{REFweb |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Darby+RJ%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50 |title=PubMed articles: Darby RJ[au&#93; |publisher=PubMed |accessdate=2020-03-16}}* {{REFweb |url=https://scholar.google. com/scholar?q=%22author%3ARobert+J+L+Darby%22 |title=Google Scholar articles: 'author:Robert J L Darby' |publisher=Google Scholar |accessdate=2020-03-16}}

{{PUBSEEALSO}}* [[A surgical temptationAustralia]]: The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain, University of Chicago Press, 2005* [[The sorcerer's apprenticeHistory of Circumcision]]: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys?, Kindle, 2013

* {{REFweb |url=http://www.cirp.org/library/history/ |title=History of Circumcision |publisher=CIRP |accessdate=2020-03-16}}* {{REFweb |url=http://www.amazonhistoryofcircumcision.com/Robert-Darby |title=http:/e/B001HMLHYIwww.historyofcircumcision.com/ref |accessdate=ntt_dp_epwbk_02020-03-16}}* {{REFweb |url=http://jmewww.bmjamazon.com/contentRobert-Darby/earlye/2013B001HMLHYI/01/29/medethicsref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0 |title=Robert Darby (author page) |publisher=Amazon |accessdate=2020-201203-101182.short?g=w_jme_ahead_tab16}}