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Dr. '''William G. Rathmann''', {{MD}}, was a physician from Inglewood, California.
Rathmann had a varied medical background. After completing internships and residency training at U.S. Marine hospitals in Chicago, Seattle and Fort Stanton, NM, he owned and operated a hospital in Carazozo, NM, for three years. Since 1938, however, be has been in general practice in Inglewood, California. A member of the senior surgical staff of Centinella Hospital, Inglewood, Dr. Rathmann is also on the staff of five other hospitals in the southern Los Angeles area. A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Academy Member Rathmann has a special interest in psychosomatic diseases.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
|title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
|website=[[NOHARMM]]
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
== Female circumcision promotion ==
In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale female circumcision as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems.<ref>{{REFbook
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
|page=29
|editor=[[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
|website=Free Patents Online
|format=PDF
|date=1960-03-29
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> It is noteworthy that his article has only be cited in another paper at PubMed.gov, by circumfetishist [[Brian J. Morris]], et al.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Rathmann
|init=WG
|author-link=W.G. Rathmann
|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14436410/#citedby
|title=Cited by
|journal=General Practitioner
|website=NIH
|date=1959-09
|volume=20
|issue=9
|pages=115-120
|pubmedID=14436410
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Rathmann
|init=WG
|author-link=W.G. Rathmann
|title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
|journal=General Practitioner
|date=1959-09
|volume=20
|issue=9
|pages=115-120
|pubmedID=14436410
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rathmann, W.G.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Promoter]]
[[Category:USA]]
Rathmann had a varied medical background. After completing internships and residency training at U.S. Marine hospitals in Chicago, Seattle and Fort Stanton, NM, he owned and operated a hospital in Carazozo, NM, for three years. Since 1938, however, be has been in general practice in Inglewood, California. A member of the senior surgical staff of Centinella Hospital, Inglewood, Dr. Rathmann is also on the staff of five other hospitals in the southern Los Angeles area. A graduate of the University of Nebraska, Academy Member Rathmann has a special interest in psychosomatic diseases.<ref>{{REFweb
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
|title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
|website=[[NOHARMM]]
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
== Female circumcision promotion ==
In 1959, he published an article promoting wide-scale female circumcision as a cure for psychosomatic illness and marital problems.<ref>{{REFbook
|title=Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy
|page=29
|editor=[[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
|website=Free Patents Online
|format=PDF
|date=1960-03-29
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref> It is noteworthy that his article has only be cited in another paper at PubMed.gov, by circumfetishist [[Brian J. Morris]], et al.<ref>{{REFjournal
|last=Rathmann
|init=WG
|author-link=W.G. Rathmann
|url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14436410/#citedby
|title=Cited by
|journal=General Practitioner
|website=NIH
|date=1959-09
|volume=20
|issue=9
|pages=115-120
|pubmedID=14436410
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}</ref>
{{PUB}}
* {{REFjournal
|last=Rathmann
|init=WG
|author-link=W.G. Rathmann
|title=Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
|url=http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
|journal=General Practitioner
|date=1959-09
|volume=20
|issue=9
|pages=115-120
|pubmedID=14436410
|accessdate=2021-10-11
}}
{{REF}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rathmann, W.G.}}
[[Category:Person]]
[[Category:Male]]
[[Category:Deceased]]
[[Category:Physician]]
[[Category:Promoter]]
[[Category:USA]]