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• Hida Viloria
  ...among a handful of American intersex activists who opposed the use of the term "Disorders of Sex Development" since its introduction. In 2007, they public ....... I know that it would have harmed my self-esteem to be raised under a term which named my difference a 'disorder.' Even complete ignorance about what
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• Aposthia
  '''Aposthia''' is a term that refers to the rare condition of being born without a [[foreskin]]. ...Pzhtm Aposthia] in [https://www.dorlandsonline.com/dorland/home Dorland's Medical Dictionary]
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• Open letter to the CDC
  ...statement considers the very modest [[Arguments pro circumcision|potential medical benefit]], while ignoring other important considerations. First of all, con ...to the degree that it appears to influence [[pain]] perception in the long-term (PMID: 15495086<ref>{{REFjournal
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• Pheromone
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pheromone |website=Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary
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• Circumcision myths and facts
  Long term consequences of high levels of pain in infants |title=Are There Long-Term Consequences of Pain in Newborn or Very Young Infants?
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• Risks and complications
  ...of male circumcision are extensive and only gradually being recognized by medical authorities. |url=https://www.i2researchhub.org/articles/ch-6-long-term-adverse-effects-of-circumcision-doc-genital-integrity-statement/
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• Dermoid cyst
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/cyst |journal=Journal of Medical Case Reports 2
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• Regret mom
  '''Regret mom''' is a term used by women who have given birth to a boy and had him [[circumcised]], bu ...face of a boy who was never traumatized by his mother and let down by the medical field.
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• Michel Garenne
  |title=Impact of excluded studies on medical male circumcision and HIV risk compensation (letter) |title=Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations
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• Raymond Rezaie
  ...eral anaesthesia. Some boys found it difficult to urinate as a result of a medical complication known as “hidden penis.”<ref name="barred">{{REFweb ...y doctor who began practicing in Montreal, Quebec in 2006. He obtained his medical degree in the Dominican Republic in 1992.<ref name="stillbooking">{{REFweb
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• Re B and G (children) (No 2) EWFC 3
  ...topher Price, Male Circumcision: An ethical and legal affront, Bulletin of Medical Ethics (May) 1997; 128, 13-19, and Brian D Earp, Female genital mutilation ...ive, no more traumatic (if, indeed, as traumatic) and with no greater long-term consequences, whether physical, emotional or psychological, than the proces
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• Female circumcision
  [[Image:FGC.jpeg|right|thumb|From Historical American Female Circumcision medical papers]] ...l cutting" ([[FGC]]) or "female genital mutilation" ([[FGM]]) is a blanket term that can refer to a wide array of genital cutting performed in girls and wo
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• Periah
  ==Transfer to medical practice== When medical doctors started to do [[circumcision]] in the Nineteenth Century, the proce
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• Circumcision advocate
  ...low their sons to have part of their healthy genitalia cut off without any medical necessity. ...und the world agree that [[circumcision]] in children almost never has a [[medical indication]]. Nevertheless, it is significant that the circumcision advocat
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• EURO CIRC
  ...to [[Circumfetish|circumfetishist]] [[Brian J. Morris]] pretending he's a medical doctor who could give professional advice on the topic of penile health and ...backfires to the operators of the website. They define ''Intact'' as "This term is often used by anti-circumcision activists to describe the uncircumcised
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• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
  |title=Safe sleep and skin-to-skin care in the neonatal period for healthy term newborns |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/allostasis
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• Lipodermos
  '''Lipodermos''' (λιποδερμος, lit. "lacking [[skin]]") is an ancient Greek medical disease concept which describes a [[penis]] with little or no [[foreskin]]. ...[[circumcised]]).<ref name="hodges2001" /> It must be remembered that this medical conceptualization happened in the historical context of the legal efforts t
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• Re L and B (CHILDREN)
  The Court heard testimony on the medical and religious aspects of non-therapeutic child circumcision. ...ey have the maturity and insight to appreciate the consequences and longer term effects of the decisions which they reach. Part of that consideration will
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• Balanitis xerotica obliterans
  }}</ref> A person with BXO or suspected BXO should be under the care of a medical doctor. Conventional medical wisdom has stated that BXO is an absolute indication for circumcision,<ref
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• Amputation
  ...on''' is the removal of a limb or body part by [[Physical trauma|trauma]], medical illness, or surgery.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/amputation
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• Urethrocutaneous fistula
  [[Category:Medical term]]
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• Necrosis
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/mycosis [[Category:Medical term]]
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• German Circumcision Act
  ...competence and understanding, if it is to be performed according to proper medical standards. This does not apply when the [[circumcision]], also considering ...cording to paragraph 1, if they are specially trained and, without being a medical doctor, are similarly competent to perform [[circumcision]].
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• Gregory J. Boyle
  ...scholarly books. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed psychology, medical, and medico-legal journals on the lifelong psychosexual harm caused by the ...disorder (PTSD) among Filipino boys subjected to non-therapeutic ritual or medical surgical procedures: A retrospective cohort study
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• Suicide
  |title=Genital Cutting: Protecting Children from Medical, Cultural, and Religious Infringements [[Category:Term]]
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• Netherlands
  ...c contexts where information may best be conveyed to families, such as the medical sector (hospitals and individual practitioners), schools, religious communi ...d self-determination. It calls the for the end of non-therapeutic cosmetic medical and surgical interventions.<ref name="resolution1952" />
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• Traditional Male Circumcision in Nigeria
  Is it genital mutilation? Is it a medical procedure? Is it a ritual? ...t intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
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• Epispasm
  ...penis is a defective and disfigured [[penis]], one that can be repaired by medical treatment. Medicine and law thereby entered into a mutually supportive rela ...recutitio'', the reskinned (cutis = [[skin]]), not differentiating by this term whether it was done surgically or nonsurgically.<ref name="schultheiss1998"
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• Clitoris
  [[Category:Medical term]]
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• VMMC Experience Project
  “[[Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision]]” (VMMC) is the policy term for the world’s first mass surgical campaign, targeting Africans. Its goa
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• Boy circumcision - More than just a small cut
  ...alth benefits and that far too often surgeries are being performed without medical necessity. The documentary investigates when circumcision actually makes medical sense and critically questions the ethics of this millennia-old practice.
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• Ischemia of the glans penis
  The medical literature has a number of reports of successful treatment of ischemia of t ...is not an act of God. It is an [[iatrogenic]] occurrence that happens when medical personnel intentionally sever blood vessels in the [[penis]] and reduce the
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• Judaism
  Wine (1988) argued that the medical aspects (surgical excision of functional penile tissue) should be separated * [[Jewish medical ethics]]
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• Masturbation
  ...arly one's genitals, for the purpose of sexual pleasure and/or orgasm. The term is most commonly used to describe solitary masturbation, in which people pr ..., natural, and healthy. It is common in both sexes and at any age. Various medical and psychological benefits have been attributed to a healthy attitude towar
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• EMLA
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/EMLA |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Emla+cream
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• Male and female circumcision
  ...s dependent on how much genital tissue is cut away. The WHO—which uses the term Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)—divides the procedure into four major typ ...pe IV FGM as "all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, for example, pricking, piercing, incising, scraping and cauteriza
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• Circumcision and violence
  |title=Ritual and medical circumcision among Filipino boys: evidence of post-traumatic stress disorde ...tial to their faith, although they have also come to lean on arguments of "medical benefits." A conference of Islamic scholars in 1987 stated that modern circ
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• Aaron J. Fink
  == Fink's appeal to medical associations == ...ndorsement, and the resolution was not adopted.<ref>Aaron Fink, California Medical Association, Resolution 712-87, March 7-11, 1987; Joan B. Hodgman and Josep
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• Urinary meatus
  [[Category:Medical term]]
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• Body piercing
  ...atty or cartilage tissue becomes. Although the practice itself is old, the term ''piercing'' was not established until the mid-1990s. |journal=Br J Medical Practitioners
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• Balanitis
  |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/for-professionals/alleged-medical-benefits/phimosis-balantis/ [[Category:Medical condition]]
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• Jewish circumcision
  ...miliar with the term "bris," as in "They're having the bris tomorrow." The term bris is well known, but few Jews realize that it means "covenant" rather th ...als using the tools that they use on Jewish boys. The [[Mogen]] clamp is a medical device created for use in hospitals, but it was modeled after a traditional
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• Haemorrhage
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/H%c3%a6morrhage |title=What is the medical evidence on non-therapeutic child circumcision?
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• Penile herpes simplex virus type 1 infection (after Jewish ritual circumcision)
  ...tion. One infant developed HSV encephalitis with neurologic sequelae (long-term brain damage manifested by ...encouraged by a heightened awareness of this potentially life-threatening medical complication.
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• American urologists and the practice of male circumcision
  The [[American Urological Association]] (AUA) is the [[medical trade association]] for the American urological industry. It has the primar * This statement is completely silent on [[human rights]] and [[medical ethics]] issues concerning the non-therapeutic excision of normal, function
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• Intactivism
  ...genital-altering procedure, with certain exceptions for cases of immediate medical need. Attached to [[genital integrity]] are the concepts of bodily autonomy The late 19th century and early 20th century saw the first opponents of medical [[circumcision]], such as Herbert Snow, [[Elizabeth Blackwell]], first fema
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• Post-traumatic stress disorder
  ...the body distal from the wound, suggesting a supraspinal effect, the long-term consequences of surgery done without anaesthesia are likely to include post ...ad suffered the traditional "''tuli''" circumcision. Of the boys who had a medical circumcision, 51 percent exhibited symptoms of [[PTSD]]. Of the boys who ha
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• Circumcision prevalence
  ...around 10% in 1880, when it was just beginning to become legitimized as a medical procedure, and grew in popularity steadily until it's peak in the 1980's.<r ...he Council on Scientific Affairs (I-99): Neonatal Circumcision]". American Medical Association Official Website. Accessed 2020-06-20.</ref> Current reports es
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• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
  |title=Trained medical professionals restrain infant to amputate part of its body while baby kicks [[Category:Term]]
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• Vagina
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Bartholin%27s+glands |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Female+sexual+arousal+disorder
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• Preputial sac
  '''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' is the term applied to the space on the [[intact]] [[penis]] between the [[prepuce]] an |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/preputial+sac
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• Paul Emil Flechsig
  It was not until a century later that medical science started to question his views. Talbert et al. (1976) measured the r ...tion is far greater than previously thought and some suggestion that short-term behavior may be affected by prior painful stimuli.
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• Sixth International Symposium
  * '''[[Charles A. Bonner]]''', {{JD}}, civil rights, personal injury, and medical malpractice attorney. Sausalito, {{USSC|CA}}, USA. ...{PhD}} (Oxon), medical historian, co-editor, Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Kluwer Academic/P
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• Preputioplasty
  [[Category:Medical term]]
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• Breastfeeding
  |title=Nutrition for healthy term infants, birth to six months: An overview |url=https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/nutrition-healthy-term-infants-overview
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• Phimosis
  * The [[frenulum]] is too short to permit retraction. The medical name for this condition is ''[[frenulum breve]]''. From a medical standpoint, an otherwise symptom-free [[phimosis]], even after dissolution
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• Antisemitism
  Opposition to non-medical [[circumcision]] of minors as a parental right is directed against the act [[Category:Term]]
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• Metzitzah b'peh
  The practice has become a controversy in both secular and [[Jewish medical ethics]]. The ritual of ''metzitzah'' is found in [[Mishnah]] Shabbat 19:2, ...argued that the New York Department of Health had not supplied conclusive medical evidence linking his client with the disease.<ref name="NewmanNYT"/><ref na
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• Meatal stenosis
  ...tears of the meatus, which are followed by secondary healing. In the long term, this creates a tighter stricture at the tip of the penis; therefore, this ...to prevent one side of the meatotomy from adhering to the other side. Some medical professionals recommend dilation with a lubricated feeding tube or the tip
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• Infection
  |url=https://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/infection |title=What is the medical evidence on non-therapeutic child circumcision?
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• Documented severe complications of circumcision
  ...n-therapeutic medical circumcision, this page will include non-therapeutic medical, religious and cultural circumcisions. The article does in no way claim to On August 27th of 2012 the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] (AAP), a medical trade association, presented a new Policy Statement on Circumcision and Tec
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• Victor Schiering
  ...n of the [[clitoris]] was part of the [[clitoris]]. And that justifies the term "mutilation".
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• Informed consent
  ...physician has a duty to reveal what a reasonably prudent physician in the medical community employing reasonable care would reveal to a patient as to whateve ...esponsibility to their fellows (members) of advancing the profitability of medical practice. Consequently their public statements regarding medically-unnecess
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• Canada
  ...tement on neonatal circumcision in 1975. The statement said "there is no [[medical indication]] for circumcision during the neonatal period." The CPS called t ...the body distal from the wound, suggesting a supraspinal effect, the long-term consequences of surgery done without anaesthesia are likely to include post
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• Thirteenth International Symposium
  ...ive in supporting Colorado NOCIRC. He is otherwise unaffiliated within the medical profession. Conifer, {{USSC|CO}}, USA. ...countless nonviolent intersex protests in front of mutilators’ clinics and medical congresses, as well as parliamentary motions, submissions, and testimonies
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• Fatalities
  ...-old Ayaan did not regain consciousness following a circumcision at United Medical College Hospital, Badda, Bangladesh.<ref>{{REFnews |title=5-year-old dies after circumcision at United Medical College Hospital
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• Double standard
  ...les of religious freedom, the right to self-determination, cultural rites, medical indications and parental care. This debate can only be conducted with the r ...hould never even be called circumcision – it’s not. In males it’s done for medical reasons – to ensure cleanliness. I could hear Aleeke crying when they did
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• Literature about foreskin restoration
  One of the aspects of [[intactivism]] that are most ignored by the medical community is the existence of a large community of men restoring their fore |journal=Medical Times
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• Pain
  ...f infants. We have recorded numerous distress cries resulting from routine medical procedures such as taking blood samples and minor surgery such as [[circumc ...the body distal from the wound, suggesting a supraspinal effect, the long-term consequences of surgery done without anaesthesia are likely to include post
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• Psychological issues of male circumcision
  |title=The effect of circumcision on transcutaneous PO₂ in term infants |title=Ritual and medical circumcision among Filipino boys: evidence of post-traumatic stress disorde
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• Urinary tract infection
  }}</ref> The term ''vesicoureteral [ureterovesical] reflux'' refers to backflow of [[urine]] |journal=Israel Journal of Medical Sciences
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• Tenth International Symposium
  ...Raffaele in Milan and at Lana Foundation in Padova. She is a member of the Medical Anthropology Italian Society (SIAM). She has written many articles for ''Et ..., ''Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy'', ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice'', ''Understanding
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• United Kingdom
  ==Introduction of circumcision as a medical practice== |journal=Medical Times and Gazette
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• Eleventh International Symposium
  ...rity, Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy; ''Male and Female Circumcision: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice''; ''Understanding ...sial. As one of the first media doctors, he knows the dangers of distorted medical reporting. Dr. Edell sorts through the morass of research, distinguishing f
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• Adolescent and adult circumcision
  ...]], the [[United States]], and elsewhere, however they are promoted by a [[medical trade association]] and its members. |title=What is the best age to circumcise? A medical and ethical analysis
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• United States of America
  The late nineteenth century was characterized by prominent medical doctors advancing all sorts of absurd reasons for the performance of non-th |journal=Medical Current
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• PEPFAR
  ...er the next two years, PEPFAR will support more than 4.7 million voluntary medical male circumcisions in Eastern and Southern Africa. |quote=Much attention has been paid to the launch of an aggressive medical male circumcision (MC) campaign in Swaziland that starts this month, a prog
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• Circumcision
  '''Posthectomy''' is the more accurate medical term that more accurately reflects the injury and loss of functional body tissue ...eutic circumcision of children, [[Child Genital Cutting (CGC)]] is a newer term that has been introduced to avoid issues associated with more traditional t
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• Case histories
  ...ain. After all, it was performed cleanly and according to the standards of medical practice in a clinic. ...rust, no matter if it is performed for religious, traditional or other non-medical reasons.
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• Jake H. Waskett
  ...rcumcision: The Legal and Ethical Issues. In Male and Female Circumcision, Medical, Legal, and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Denniston GC, Hod Jake Waskett is not a doctor or medical professional of any kind, nor does he have any type of degree.<ref name="gi
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• Circumcision and HIV
  ...usible but incorrect hypothesis that [[Langerhans cells]] attracted HIV. A medical journal in [[Israel]] was willing to publish the paper by Weiss et al.<ref Although there may be other medical or cultural reasons for male circumcision, it is not associated with [[HIV]
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