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Newborn Male Circumcision

Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2023
Abstract: This symposium includes twelve personal narratives from parents about making the decision whether to circumcise their infant male children. The authors of the narratives include five fathers and seven mothers. Nine of the 12 parent authors opted to circumcise their infant sons, though the reasons they stated for doing so varied.
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In Defence of Male Circumcision

Monash Bioethics Review, 2013
Controversies over the acceptability of male circumcision (MC) are not new to the international bioethical community. I do not expect to add much to the arguments or evidence presented elsewhere, but I want to acknowledge the often-overlooked political element in which the debate is entrenched.
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Voluntary medical male circumcision and HIV in Zambia: expectations and observations

Journal of Biosocial Science, 2019
The study analysed the HIV/AIDS situation in Zambia six years after the onset of mass campaigns of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC). The analysis was based on data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) conducted in 2001, 2007 and 2013 ...
M. Garenne, A. Matthews
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'Ode to the Circumcised Male'

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1987
Sir .—Before the mid-1970s, the American standard of care included neonatal circumcision, a minor surgical procedure that promoted genital hygiene and prevented later penile cancer as well as cervical cancer in female sexual partners. More recently, evidence has suggested that adequate hygiene is all that is needed and that circumcision is an ...
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Complications of traditional male circumcision

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics, 1999
The complications of traditional male circumcision were studied in 48 boys seen between January 1981 and December 1995. Their ages ranged from 3 days to 7 years (mean: 4 years). Haemorrhage, the commonest complication, was seen in 25 (52%) and infection in ten; one child had amputation of the penis.
G. D. Kalayi, Dawam D, A Ahmed, Mbibi Nh
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Male Circumcision as a Religious Ritual

JAMA Dermatology, 2014
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Barry Ladizinski   +2 more
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Male circumcision in HIV prevention

The Lancet, 2007
Recent randomised trials of male circumcision in sterile conditions show substantially reduced HIV incidence in circumcised men. However the epidemiological mechanism for this effect remains unclear. Although trial investigators have suggested unsubstantiated physiological factors for the apparent protective effect other mechanisms could account for ...
Seth C. Kalichman   +2 more
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