Flesh and Blood

Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society
2004
ISBN: 978-0-306-48333-2
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1640 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Denniston, George C.

Milos, Marilyn Fayre

Hodges, Frederick Mansfield

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bodily Integrity in the Biotech Era.- An Analysis of the Accuracy of the Presentation of the Human Penis in Anatomical Source Materials.- The Importance of the Foreskin to Male Sexual Reflexes.- Circumcision and Sexual Pleasure.- Conservative Treatment of Primary Preputial Stenosis in Adolescents.- Penile Torts in the Courts.- The Activist’s Rights in the Workplace.- Educating the United Nations about Circumcision.- Circumcision of Boys.- Anthropology and Female Genital Cutting (FGC).- Changes in Infibulation Practice in East Africa.- “Something Less Than Joyful”.- The Growing Jewish Circumcision Debate.- My Painful Journey.- North Carolina Medicaid and the Funding of Routine Non-Therapeutic Circumcisions.- Adoption.- George Wald.- Contributors.