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}}</ref> In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the Task Force on Circumcision by the American Association Academy of Pediatrics,<ref>''American Journal of Diseases in Children'', Vol 141: 128. February 1987</ref> where he pushed for routine , non-therapeutic infant circumcision, but the neonatologists on Schoen's committee wouldn't go for it. According to Schoen, not performing circumcision would be "taking us back to nineteenth-century medicine on the eve of the 21st century," and that circumcision will prevent "dermatological problems".<ref>{{REFjournal