Flesh and Blood : Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society

George C. Denniston

ISBN 10: 1441934464 / ISBN 13: 9781441934468

Editore: Springer US, Springer US, 2010

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Who owns your sex organs Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain cultures have placed constraints over the individual's ownership of his or her sex organs and actively regulate and restrict the individual's access and use of those organs. In other cultures, the question of ownership of the sex organs is more decisively answered. In any culture where circumcision to any degree of either the male or female is practiced, permitted, encouraged, or even merely tolerated, it is clear that the individual is not considered to own his own sex organs. In the United States today, the medical establishment has created an is considered acceptable and desirable that anyone for environment where it any reason can authorize or execute the amputation of the foreskin from a male child's penis.

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• Titolo: Flesh and Blood : Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society
• Editore: Springer US, Springer US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1441934464
• ISBN 13: 9781441934468
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 254 L x 178 A x 15 P (millimetri) 254 millimetri di larghezza per 178 millimetri di altezza per 15 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 518 grammi

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Who owns your sex organs? Different cultures today and in different epochs have given a variety of answers to this question. It may seem self­ evident that every individual owns and has sovereignty over his or her own body parts, such as the head, legs, nose, stomach, pancreas, and other body parts. The sex organs, however, seem to be an exception. Even though they are as much an integral part of the individual as a leg or a liver, the sex organs are unique in that many cultures have established laws and taboos over the use and even the mere display of the sex organs. Thus, certain cultures have placed constraints over the individual's ownership of his or her sex organs and actively regulate and restrict the individual's access and use of those organs. In other cultures, the question of ownership of the sex organs is more decisively answered. In any culture where circumcision to any degree of either the male or female is practiced, permitted, encouraged, or even merely tolerated, it is clear that the individual is not considered to own his own sex organs. In the United States today, the medical establishment has created an is considered acceptable and desirable that anyone for environment where it any reason can authorize or execute the amputation of the foreskin from a male child's penis.

Contenuti

Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era; F.M. Hodges. An Analysis of the Accuracy of the Presentation of the Human Penis in Anatomical Source Materials; G.L. Harryman. The Importance of the Foreskin to Male Sexual Reflexes; H.S. Meislahn, J.R. Taylor. Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure; G.C. Denniston. Conservative Treatment of Primary Preputial Stenosis in Adolescents; M. Beaugé. Penile Torts in the Courts; D. Llewellyn. The Activist's Rights in the Workplace; C. Bonner. Educating the United Nations about Circumcision; J.S. Svoboda. Circumcision of Boys; Y. Hofvander. Anthropology and Female Genital Cutting (FGC); M.M. Sarkis. Changes in Infibulation Practice in East Africa; P. Grassivaro Gallo, M. Livio, F. Viviani. 'Something Less Than Joyful'; L.B. Glick. The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate; R. Goldman. My Painful Journey; M.D. Reiss. North Carolina Medicaid and the Funding of Routine Non-Therapeutic Circumcisions; A. Craig. Adoption; G.J. Hartley. George Wald; V. Lewis. Appendix. Contributors. Index.