A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

by Robert Darby

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226136450
• ISBN13: 9780226136455
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"