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876070
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Darby, Robert, (Robert J. L.)
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| Title & Author
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A surgical temptation : : the demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain /\ Robert Darby.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, ©2005.
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xi, 374 pages ;; 24 cm
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0226136450
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: 9780226136455
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-364) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- The best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex -- Pathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- The shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians -- The priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age -- A source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin -- A compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s -- One of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice -- The besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation -- This unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis -- Prevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body -- The purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis -- The stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society -- Conclusion: the end of the culture of abstinence.
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| Abstract
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'A Surgical Temptation' reveals the history of the practice of, & the arguments for & against, circumcision in GB from the 19th to the 20th century.
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Circumcision-- History.
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Circumcision-- Social aspects.
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Beschneidung
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Circoncision masculine-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Circoncision-- Aspect social.
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Circoncision-- Histoire.
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Circumcision-- Social aspects.
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Circumcision.
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Masturbation.
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Circumcision, Male-- ethics.
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Circumcision, Male-- history.
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History, 19th Century.
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History, 20th Century.
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Masturbation-- prevention control.
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Penile Diseases-- prevention control.
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United Kingdom.
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Großbritannien
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| Dewey Classification
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392.1/09
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| LC Classification
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GN484.D37 2005
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| NLM classification
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2005 J-536
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GN 484D213s 2005
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