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[[File:RobertDarby.jpg|thumb|Robert Darby]]'''Robert John L. Darby''' {{BA}}, {{BLitt}}, {{PhD}} ({{LifeData|birth=1953|birthplace=Melbourne|death=2019-03|deathplace=Canberra, ACT|deathcountry=Australia}}<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-245711800/findingaid#biographical-note |title=Papers of Robert Darby: Biographical Note |publisher=TROVE |accessdate=2022-06-01}}</ref><ref>{{REFweb |url=https://www.doctorsopposingcircumcision.org/on-the-death-of-dr-rob-darby/ |title=On the Death of Dr. Rob Darby |last=Geisheker |init=John |author-link=John Geisheker |publisher=[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] |date=2019-04-25 |accessdate=2022-06-01}}</ref>) was an independent scholar and freelance writer from Canberra, the capital of [[Australia]]. He began his writing and research career as a literary historian, with a {{FromIntactWikiPhD}} on Australian literature and politics in the 1960s, but his interests have broadened since then to include many topics in cultural, social and medical history, as well as ethics and current affairs. His major published work so far has been a detailed account of the rise and fall of non-therapeutic "health" [[circumcision]] in [[United Kingdom| Britain]] ([[A Surgical Temptation]], 2005), and since then he has written widely on medical, historical and ethical aspects of both male and female circumcision - which he regard as primarily a [[human rights]] and social justice issue, not really a medical issue at all. He is also author of "[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]: Why can't the [[United States]] stop circumcising boys?" His writings fully qualify him to hold the title of [[Intactivist]]. He also prepared a collection of the medical writings of Arthur Conan Doyle,'' Round the Red Lamp'' (Valancourt Books, 2007), and an edited edition of ''Elements of Social Science'' by the great Victorian iconoclast George Drysdale. {{PUB}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |Titlefirst=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/2002-09_Darby-BeenThereDoneThat.pdf |title=Been There, Done That: Thoughts on the proposition that yet more circumcision can save the world from AIDS |journal=Australian Quarterly |date=2002-09 |volume=74 |issue=5 |pages=26-35 |accessdate=2021-05-08}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=The masturbation taboo and the rise of routine male circumcision: A review of the historiography |journal=J Soc Hist |date=2003 |volume=36 |URLpages=737-57 |url=http://intactwikiwww.cirp.org/wlibrary/history/darby4/ |accessdate=2021-05-02}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=Pathologizing Male Sexuality: Lallemand, Spermatorrhea, and the Rise of Circumcision |journal=Journal of the History of Medicine |date=2005-07 |volume=60 |pages=283-319 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15917258/ |pubmedID=15917258 |DOI=10.1093/jhmas/jri042 |accessdate=2021-05-08}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |url=https://hoodieorhelmet.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/2/3/122384313/the_riddle_of_the_sands_circumcision_his.pdf |title=The Riddle of the Sands |journal=New Zealand Medical Journal |date=2005-07-15 |volume=116 |issue=1218 |pages=1-7 |accessdate=2021-06-25}}* {{REFbook |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=[[A Surgical Temptation]]: The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain |publisher={{UNI|University of Chicago|UChicago}} Press |year=2005}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |last2=Cozijn |first2=John |init2=J |author2-link= |title=The British Royal Family’s Circumcision Tradition: Genesis and Evolution of a Contemporary Legend |journal=Sage |date=2013-10-16 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2158244013508960 |DOI=10.1177/2158244013508960 |accessdate=2021-05-17}}* {{REFbook |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice]]: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys? |publisher=Kindle |year=2013}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert J.L. |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |title=The child's right to an open future: Is the principle applicable to non-therapeutic circumcision |url=https://jme.bmj.com/content/39/7/463.short?g=w_jme_ahead_tab |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics |volume=39 |pages=415-415 |DOI=10.1136/medethics-2013-101605 |date=2013-06-18 |accessdate=2020-01-05}}* {{REFjournal |last=Darby |first= |init=R |author-link=Robert Darby |etal=no |title=To avoid circumcision complications, avoid circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Can Urol Assoc J |location= |date=2014-08-14 |volume=8 |issue=7-8 |article= |page=231 |pages= |url=https://cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/1709/1823 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID= |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.5489/cuaj.1709 |accessdate=2022-12-16}}*{{REFjournal |last=Darby |first=Robert |init=RJL |author-link=Robert Darby |etal=no |title=Risks, Benefits, Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors in the Current Debate on Non-Therapeutic Circumcision |trans-title= |language= |journal=Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal |location= |date=2015-03 |volume=25 |issue=1 |article= |page= |pages=1-34 |url=https://kiej.georgetown.edu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/03_25.1darby.pdf |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=25843118 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1353/ken.2015.0004 |accessdate=2021-07-16}}* {{REFweb |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?cmd=search&term=Darby+RJ%5Bau%5D&dispmax=50 |title=Robert_DarbyPubMed articles: Darby RJ[au&oldid#93; |publisher=PubMed |accessdate=2020-03-16}}* {{REFweb |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22author%3ARobert+J+L+Darby%22 |title=Google Scholar articles: 'author:Robert J L Darby' |publisher=Google Scholar |accessdate=21422020-03-16

'''Robert Darby''' (✝ April 2019) was an independent scholar and freelance writer from in Canberra, the capital of Australia. He began his writing and research career as a literary historian, with a PhD on Australian literature and politics in the 1930s, but his interests have broadened since then to include many topics in cultural, social and medical history, as well as ethics and current affairs. His major published work so far has been a detailed account of the rise and fall of routine "health" circumcision in Britain ({{SEEALSO}}* [[A surgical temptationAustralia]], 2005), and since then he has written widely on medical, historical and ethical aspects of both male and female circumcision - which he regard as primarily a human rights and social justice issue, not really a medical issue at all. He is also author of "* [[The sorcerer's apprenticeHistory of Circumcision]]: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys?"

He also prepared a collection of the medical writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, Round the Red Lamp (Valancourt Books, 2007), and an edited edition of Elements of Social Science by the great Victorian iconoclast George Drysdale{{LINKS}}* {{URL-FBprofile|robert.darby. His most recent article was "[1610|2019-09-26}}* {{REFweb |url=http://jmewww.bmjcirp.comorg/library/contenthistory/early |title=History of Circumcision |publisher=CIRP |accessdate=2020-03-16}}* {{REFweb |url=http:/2013/01www.historyofcircumcision.com/29 |title=http:/medethics/www.historyofcircumcision.com/ |accessdate=2020-201203-10118216}}* {{REFweb |url=http://www.short?gamazon.com/Robert-Darby/e/B001HMLHYI/ref=w_jme_ahead_tab The child's right to an open future: Is the principle applicable to nonntt_dp_epwbk_0 |title=Robert Darby (author page) |publisher=Amazon |accessdate=2020-03-therapeutic circumcision]", published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, July 2013. 16}}

{{PUBABBR}}{{REF}}* [[A surgical temptation]]: The Demonization of the Foreskin & the Rise of Circumcision in Britain, University of Chicago Press, 2005* [[The sorcerer's apprentice]]{{DEFAULTSORT: Why can't the United States stop circumcising boys?Darby, Kindle, 2013Robert}}

{{LINKS}}* [https[Category://www.facebook.com/robert.darby.1610 Facebook profilePerson]] * http[[Category://www.historyofcircumcision.net/Male]]* http[[Category://www.circinfo.org/* http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Darby/e/B001HMLHYI/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0* http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2013/01/29/medethics-2012-101182.short?g=w_jme_ahead_tabDeceased]]

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