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2012, Bioethics
Global Public Health
Circumcision of male infants and children as a public health measure in developed countries: a critical assessment of recent evidence2018 •
In December of 2014, an anonymous working group under the United States’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a draft of the first-ever federal recommendations regarding male circumcision. In accordance with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ circumcision policy from 2012 - but in contrast to the more recent 2015 policy from the Canadian Paediatric Society as well as prior policies (still in force) from medical associations in Europe and Australasia - the CDC suggested that the benefits of the surgery outweigh the risks. In this article, we provide a brief scientific and conceptual analysis of the CDC’s assessment of benefit vs. risk, and argue that it deserves a closer look. Although we set aside the burgeoning bioethical debate surrounding the moral permissibility of performing non-therapeutic circumcisions on healthy minors, we argue that, from a scientific and medical perspective, current evidence suggests that such circumcision is not an appropriate public health measure for developed countries such as the United States.
2007 •
International Journal of Impotence Research
Circumcision in childhood and male sexual function: a blessing or a curse?2020 •
Journal of Medical Ethics
Male circumcision and HIV prevention: ethical, medical and public health tradeoffs in low-income countries2007 •
2017 •
Surgically modifying the genitals of children—female, male, and intersex—has drawn increased scrutiny in recent years. In Western societies, it is illegal to modify the healthy genitals of female children in any way or to any extent in the absence of a strict medical indication. By contrast, modifying the healthy genitals of male children and intersex children is currently permitted. In this journal in 2015, Stephen R. Munzer discussed a controversial German court case from 2012 (and its aftermath) that called into question the legal status of nontherapeutic male circumcision (NTC), particularly as it is carried out in infancy or early childhood. Whether NTC is legal before an age of consent depends partly upon abstract principles relating to the best interpretation of the relevant laws, and partly upon empirical and conceptual questions concerning the degree to which, and ways in which, such circumcision can reasonably be understood as a harm. In this article, we explore some of these latter questions in light of Professor Munzer's analysis, paying special attention to the subjective, personal, and individually and culturally variable dimensions of judgments about benefit versus harm. We also highlight some of the inconsistencies in the current legal treatment of male versus female forms of nontherapeutic childhood genital alteration, and suggest that problematically gendered assumptions about the sexual body may play a role in bringing about and sustaining such inconsistencies.
While rare in Scandinavia and Europe, male circumcision is still common in North America despite some reductions in frequency over recent decades. The United States rate has declined from 90 to 60 per cent in recent years and has fallen by 15 percent in five years.1 Canadian circumcision rates differ dramatically from province to province but the national average is around 25%. It is revealing that the provincial rates have plummeted as each province discontinued coverage under the National Health Service.2 Currently, only Manitoba still pays for circumcisions. Circumcision does not constitute genuine medical treatment. It violates criminal law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and also human rights. The health implications are graver than is generally realised, despite clear medical evidence of adverse effects from the pain, significant complications, psychological harm and inevitable prejudice to genital function. There are no clearly demonstrable medical benefits. The law, the medical profession, and society in general seems to have turned two blind eyes to this serious form of violence against males.
Journal of Vascular Research
Downregulation of Bradykinin Type 2 Receptor Expression in Cardiac Endothelial Cells during Senescence2012 •
1986 •
The EMBO journal
Interplay of cell-cell contacts and RhoA/MRTF-A signaling regulates cardiomyocyte identity2018 •
Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Ethics Law and History
Klinik Tıp Eğitimi Sırasında Hasta Yönünden Ortaya Çıkan Etik Sorunlar1998 •
1998 •
Journal of Scientific Research and Reports
Relationship between Maltreatment in Childhood and Intimate Partner Violence2015 •
Acta informatica medica : AIM : journal of the Society for Medical Informatics of Bosnia & Herzegovina : časopis Društva za medicinsku informatiku BiH
Trends in authorship in an Indian pediatric dentistry journal: relevance of matthew effect2013 •
Journal of Research in Weed Science
Relative phytotoxicity of stem and root aqueous extracts of Parthenium hysterophorus L. on Cicer aeritinum2019 •
Journal of Clean Energy Technologies
Design and Analysis of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine for Household Application2017 •
Applied Sciences
Design of the Cryogenic Bypass Line for the SIS100 Synchrotron2017 •
Journal of Hospital Infection
Clinical outcomes of patients undergoing a cardiac implantable electronic device implantation following a recent non-device-related infection2020 •
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
A New Clinical Model of Interreality Care for 90-DAY Readmissions: Clinical and Financial Implications for New Bpci Advantage Program2019 •
Arabian Journal of Geosciences
Major and trace element geochemistry of lake sediments, India: implications for weathering and climate control2014 •
2019 •
International Journal of Women's Health and Wellness
Magnitude and Factors Associated with Utilization of Labor Analgesia among Obstetric Caregivers at Public Hospitals in Sidama Region, Southern EthiopiaMalaysian Journal of Syariah and Law
Legal Education : Producing (Practice-Ready) Candidates in Malaysia2018 •
American Journal of Political Science
Reconciling Pluralism and Consensus as Political Ideals2006 •
Acta Physiologiae Plantarum
Polyamines and their possible mechanisms involved in plant physiological processes and elicitation of secondary metabolites2018 •
Modern Pathology
HPV DNA detection and genotyping in 21 cases of primary invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the vagina2008 •
AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics
Extensions of Richardson’s theorem for infinite digraphs and (𝒜, ℬ)-kernels2020 •