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→History: Add David Reimer information; revise Patel information.
[[Douglas Gairdner]]'s classic 1949 paper, ''The Fate of the Foreskin: A Study of Circumcision'',<ref name="gairdner1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</ref> seems to have been ignored in Canada.
Bruce Peter Reimer, later known as [[David Reimer]] was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba on 22 August 1965. His penis was destroyed in an accident during medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision. Patel (1966) reported his findings on neonatal [[circumcision]] in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Patel reported on the complications a complication rate of 55 percent experienced in a series of 100 consecutive male infantsinfant circumcisions. He also reported on the incidence of circumcision at [http://www.kingstonhsc.ca/ Kingston General Hospital] in Kingston, Ontario. Patel reported an incidence of circumcision of 48 percent. This is for one hospital in Kingston, ON but has been widely and falsely cited as the rate for all Canada.<ref>{{REFjournal
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