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This video by Douglas Kiker has appearances by [[Marilyn Milos]], R.N., [[Benjamin Spock]], M.D., and [[Rosemary Romberg| Rosemary Romberg Weiner]].
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== Discussion ==
In the 75-year period (1875 to 1950) there was virtually no opposition to "routine" non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]]. Instead there were many articles in medical journals and textbooks extolling the practice; the issue was ignored in the popular press. Yet in the more than a century of acceptance of [[Routine Infant Circumcision| routine circumcision]] in the English-speaking countries, from 1870 to the present, no other country adopted non-therapeutic newborn circumcision.
The first serious questioning of the practice did not occur until late 1949 (in England with the publication of [[Douglas Gairdner|Gairdner]]'s "The Fate of the Foreskin.",<ref name="gairdner1949">{{GairdnerDM 1949}}</ref> which began to affect the practice of [[circumcision]] in the [[United Kingdom]]. In 1963, an editorial in ''JAMA'' called the attitude of the medical profession paradoxical and confused, and admitted that the facts about [[circumcision]] were still unknown.<ref>{{REFjournal
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