Circumcision : a history of the world's most controversial surgery
Title:
Circumcision : a history of the world's most controversial surgery
Author:
Gollaher, David, 1949-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, [2000]
©2000
Physical Description:
xiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The Jewish tradition -- Christians and Muslims -- Symbolic wounds -- From ritual to science -- The fabric of the foreskin -- Circumcision and disease: the quest for evidence -- Backlash -- Female circumcision -- Appendix: evaluative research and the nature of medical evidence.
Reading Level:
1460 Lexile.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9780465043972
Format :
Book
