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The late '''Edgar J. Schoen''' ({{LifeData|1925|2016}}) was a [[Circumcised doctors|circumcised American Physician]] and worked as a Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the {{UNI|University of California, San Francisco|UCSF}}.<ref>{{REFweb
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|url=http://directory.ucsf.edu/people_detail.jsp?FNO=Edgar.Schoen@ucsf.edu&retLink=1&school_code=all&last_name=schoen&first_name=&offset=0
}}</ref> (''Potential'' means to exist in possibility but not in actuality, so a ''potential benefit'' is not a real benefit.) This was despite their own admission that evidence linking circumcision to prevention of any diseases was inconclusive, with the sole exception of penile cancer (which they noted was mainly caused by unhealthy lifestyles). Given Schoen's history of circumcision advocacy and his position as task force chair, he may have influenced the committee significantly. While the statement spoke glowingly of circumcision, it made no formal recommendation for circumcision, perhaps on advice of counsel.
The 1989 AAP circumcision statement was not well received. Professor Ronald Poland, M. D., another member of the AAP task force, rejected Schoen's advocacy of non-therapeutic circumcision and published his own paper in which he argued against [[circumcision]].<ref>{{REFjournal
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|first=Ronald L.
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==Death==
Schoen died in his sleep, at the age of 91 on 23 August 2016, surrounded by his family.<ref>{{REFweb
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== Conclusion ==Edgar J. Schoen was both Jewish and a medical doctor. He evidently introduced his religion and views regarding the [[Abrahamic covenant]] into his medical practice. His misdeeds regarding [[circumcision]], with the assistance of the [[American Academy of Pediatrics]], prolonged the practice of [[Pain| painful]], [[Trauma| traumatic]], medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] by at least a decade and caused millions of American boys to suffer the unnecessary loss of a functional, erogenous part of their [[penis]].
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* [[Alleged reasons for circumcision]]