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==Effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision==
The focus then turned to investigation of the effects of unanesthetized infant circumcision. Doctors falsely believed that newborn infants could not feel pain,<ref name="cope">{{REFjournal
|last=Cope
|first=
|author-link=
|title=Neonatal Pain: The Evolution of an Idea
|journal=The American Association of Anesthesiologists Newsletter
|date=1998-09
|volume=
|issue=
|pages=
|url=
|accessdate=2019-12-05
}}</ref> so they blamed the observed effects on "stress", not pain.
Luther, Kraybill & Potter (1976) tested cortisol and cortisone in the blood of newborn infants before and after circumcision. Dramatic increases in cortisol and a lesser increase in cortisone was recorded.<ref name="luther1976">{{REFjournal
|last=Talbot
|first=LM
|author-link=
|last2=Kraybill
|first2=EN
|author2-link=
|last3=Potter
|first3=HD
|author3-link=
|etal=no
|title=Adrenal cortical response to circumcision in the neonate
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Obstet Gynecol
|location=
|date=1976
|volume=46
|issue=2
|pages=2018-10
|url=http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/talbert/
|quote=
|pubmedID=940653
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|accessdate=
}}</ref>
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