Author: Robert Darby
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605888
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedu...
A Surgical Temptation
Author: Robert Darby
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605888
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedu...
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459605888
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedu...
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Circumcision
Author: Paul M. Fleiss
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780759527515
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This guide aims to explode the myths and misinformation about circumcision in an accessible, easy-to-read format. After describing the anatomy of the penis, the book explains the procedure, describes the risks associated and debunks the six most common reasons doctors will give when recommending it.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9780759527515
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This guide aims to explode the myths and misinformation about circumcision in an accessible, easy-to-read format. After describing the anatomy of the penis, the book explains the procedure, describes the risks associated and debunks the six most common reasons doctors will give when recommending it.
Marked in Your Flesh
Author: Leonard B. Glick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198039255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198039255
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The book of Genesis tells us that God made a covenant with Abraham, promising him a glorious posterity on the condition that he and all his male descendents must be circumcised. For thousands of years thereafter, the distinctive practice of circumcision served to set the Jews apart from their neighbors. The apostle Paul rejected it as a worthless practice, emblematic of Judaism's fixation on physical matters. Christian theologians followed his lead, arguing that whereas Christians sought spiritual fulfillment, Jews remained mired in such pointless concerns as diet and circumcision. As time went on, Europeans developed folklore about malicious Jews who performed sacrificial murders of Christian children and delighted in genital mutilation. But Jews held unwaveringly to the belief that being a Jewish male meant being physically circumcised and to this day even most non-observant Jews continue to follow this practice. In this book, Leonard B. Glick offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the current controversy. By the turn of the century, more and more physicians in America and England--but not, interestingly, in continental Europe--were performing the procedure routinely. Glick shows that Jewish American physicians were and continue to be especially vocal and influential champions of the practice which, he notes, serves to erase the visible difference between Jewish and gentile males. Informed medical opinion is now unanimous that circumcision confers no benefit and the practice has declined. In Jewish circles it is virtually taboo to question circumcision, but Glick does not flinch from asking whether this procedure should continue to be the defining feature of modern Jewish identity.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Author: Sue Ullstein
Publisher: Ladybird Books
ISBN: 9780721413518
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher: Ladybird Books
ISBN: 9780721413518
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Madhouse
Author: Andrew Scull
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300126700
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A shocking story of medical brutality perfomed in the name of psychiatric medicine.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300126700
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
A shocking story of medical brutality perfomed in the name of psychiatric medicine.
History of Circumcision
Author: P. C. Remondino
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898754100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A history of male and female circumcision originally published in 1900, the book is based on a long and personal observation of the changes made in man by circumcision. Dr. Remondino inquired into the moral, physical, and mental effects of circumcision in the three major religions. He goes beyond just discussing circumcision, by including all the mutilations practiced on the genitals as a contribution to the natural history of man. Over 26 chapters include antiquity of circumcision, theories as to the origin of circumcision, the spread of circumcision, the history of castration and eunuchism reasons for being circumcised, medical conditions and related surgery, and attempts to abolish circumcision.
Publisher: The Minerva Group, Inc.
ISBN: 0898754100
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A history of male and female circumcision originally published in 1900, the book is based on a long and personal observation of the changes made in man by circumcision. Dr. Remondino inquired into the moral, physical, and mental effects of circumcision in the three major religions. He goes beyond just discussing circumcision, by including all the mutilations practiced on the genitals as a contribution to the natural history of man. Over 26 chapters include antiquity of circumcision, theories as to the origin of circumcision, the spread of circumcision, the history of castration and eunuchism reasons for being circumcised, medical conditions and related surgery, and attempts to abolish circumcision.
Tempted and Tried
Author: Russell Moore
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433515970
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Although temptation is a common and well-acknowledged part of the human experience, few realize the truth behind temptation and fewer still know how to defeat it. Tempted and Tried will not reassure Christians by claiming that temptation is less powerful or less prevalent than it is; instead, it will prepare believers for battle by telling the truth about the cosmic war that is raging. Moore shows that the temptation of every Christian is part of a broader conspiracy against God, a conspiracy that confronts everyone who shares the flesh of Jesus through human birth and especially confronts those who share the Spirit of Christ through the new birth of redemption. Moore walks readers through the Devil's ancient strategies for temptation revealed in Jesus' wilderness testing. Moore considers how those strategies might appear in a contemporary context and points readers to a way of escape. Tempted and Tried will remind Christians that temptation must be understood in terms of warfare, encouraging them with the truth that victory has already been secured through the triumph of Christ.
Publisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433515970
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Although temptation is a common and well-acknowledged part of the human experience, few realize the truth behind temptation and fewer still know how to defeat it. Tempted and Tried will not reassure Christians by claiming that temptation is less powerful or less prevalent than it is; instead, it will prepare believers for battle by telling the truth about the cosmic war that is raging. Moore shows that the temptation of every Christian is part of a broader conspiracy against God, a conspiracy that confronts everyone who shares the flesh of Jesus through human birth and especially confronts those who share the Spirit of Christ through the new birth of redemption. Moore walks readers through the Devil's ancient strategies for temptation revealed in Jesus' wilderness testing. Moore considers how those strategies might appear in a contemporary context and points readers to a way of escape. Tempted and Tried will remind Christians that temptation must be understood in terms of warfare, encouraging them with the truth that victory has already been secured through the triumph of Christ.
In Favour of Circumcision
Author: Brian J. Morris
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868405377
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Gives direct answers to long-held questions about the controversial operation: circumcision. What does the operation involve? How painful is it? What does it cost? What are the benefits & drawbacks? Does circumcision affect sexual activity?
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868405377
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Gives direct answers to long-held questions about the controversial operation: circumcision. What does the operation involve? How painful is it? What does it cost? What are the benefits & drawbacks? Does circumcision affect sexual activity?
The Foreskin
Author: Samuel M Carnes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522747857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
So many people have no idea what the foreskin is, how it works or its benefits. Instead, all they hear are the many myths surrounding it. This book is dedicated to educating about the foreskin and answering your questions about it. Hopefully, this will help to normalize the foreskin and show that not only is it cool to be intact it is also healthier and all around better.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781522747857
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
So many people have no idea what the foreskin is, how it works or its benefits. Instead, all they hear are the many myths surrounding it. This book is dedicated to educating about the foreskin and answering your questions about it. Hopefully, this will help to normalize the foreskin and show that not only is it cool to be intact it is also healthier and all around better.
The First Man-Made Man
Author: Pagan Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. Michael Dillon's incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596918314
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented with breakthrough technologies that ultimately transformed the human body and revolutionized medicine. Michael Dillon's incredible story, from upper-class orphan girl to Buddhist monk, reveals the struggles of early transsexuals and challenges conventional notions of what gender really means.