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Dr. '''William G. George Rathmann'''<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://nebnewspapers.unl.edu/lccn/sn96080312/1932-05-05/ed-1/seq-1/ocr/ |title=([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, May 05, 1932, Image 1 |website=The daily Nebraskan |accessdate=2021-10-11}}</ref>, {{MD}}, was a physician from Inglewood, California{{USSC|CA}}.
Rathmann had a varied medical background. After completing internships and residency training at U.S. Marine hospitals in Chicago, Seattle and Fort Stanton, {{USSC|NM}}, he owned and operated a hospital in Carazozo, {{USSC|NM}}, for three years. Since 1938, however, be he has been in general practice in Inglewood, California{{USSC|CA}}. A member of the senior surgical staff of Centinella [https://www.centinelamed.com/ Centinela Hospital], Inglewood, Dr. Rathmann is was also on the staff of five other hospitals in the southern Los Angeles area. A graduate of the {{UNI|University of Nebraska|UNEL}}, Academy Member Rathmann has had a special interest in psychosomatic diseases.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
|title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
== Female circumcision promotion ==
In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale [[female circumcision ]] as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems. He literally claimed beside other arguments, that "if the husband is unusually awkward or difficult to educate, one should at times make the [[clitoris ]] easier to find."<ref>{{REFbook
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
|page=29
|editoreditors=[[George C. Denniston]], ‎[[Marilyn Fayre Milos]]
|year=2013
}}</ref> He also promoted his then newly patented "Rathmann female genital circumcision clamp".<ref>{{REFdocument
|url=https://www.freepatentsonline.com/2930376.pdf
|title=Surgical Instrument
|websitepublisher=Free Patents Online
|format=PDF
|date=1960-03-29
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> It is noteworthy that his article has only be been cited in another paper at PubMed.gov, by circumfetishist [[Brian J. Morris]], et al.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Rathmann
|init=WG
|volume=20
|issue=9
|pages=115-12020
|pubmedID=14436410
|accessdate=2021-10-11
* {{Rathmann1959}}
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* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]
 
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