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}}</ref> Schoen had a humorous poem about circumcision published in 1986.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Schoen |first=EG |title=Ode to the Circumcised Male |journal=Am J Dis Child |date=1986 |volume=141 |issue= |pages=128 |url=http://www.cirp.org/literature/schoen-ode.html |accessdate=2019-10-11}}</ref> This may have contributed to his being appointed as chairman of the new AAP task force on circumcision. In 1987, Schoen was appointed head of the Task Force on Circumcision by the American 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