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- Anesthetic Cream Cuts Circumcision Pain - Health Central reprint from the New England Journal of Medicine. "A pain-relieving cream can take some of the pain out of circumcision for male infants undergoing the procedure, Canadian investigators conclude."
www.healthcentral.com/news/NewsFullText.cfm?ID=2662
- Below the Belt: Doctors, Debate, and the Ongoing American Discussion of Routine Neonatal Male Circumcision - by Lawrence S. Dritsas, VPISU -- Bulletin Of Science, Technology & Society, August 2001
www.cirp.org/library/general/dritsas1
- Children have feelings too! - Views and reviews by Anne McFadyen as published in the British Medical Journal.
www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/316/7144/1616/a
- Circumcision Of The Newborn Male And The Risk Of Urinary Tract Infection During The First Year: A Meta-Analysis - Boletino Medico Infante Mexicano (Oct 1992)- "Recommendation of routine circumcision of all newborns is not justified with the data. "
www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/amato
- Circumcision: Is the Risk of Urinary Tract Infection Really the Pivotal Issue? - Clinical Pediatrics (Feb 1992) by JB Chessare, Dept of Pediatrics, Medical College of Ohio -- For the set of values assigned to the outcomes, the choice of no circumcision yielded the highest expected utility.
www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/chessare
- Cohort study on circumcision of newborn boys and subsequent risk of urinary-tract infection - The Lancet (5 Dec 1998) Study findings support the notion that circumcision may protect infant boys from UTI but the magnitude of this effect is significantly less than previously estimated.
www.cirp.org/library/disease/UTI/to2
- Complications Of Circumcision - by Williams and Kapila - British Journal Of Surgery (Oct 1993) Review considers the spectrum of complications which may result from circumcision, including Psychological and Sexual, and discusses the possible aetiological mechanisms
www.cirp.org/library/complications/williams-kapila
- Conservative treatment of phimosis in children using a topical steroid - UROLOGY (Aug 2000) Article on the medical treatment of narrow foreskin in boys.
www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/orsola1
- Effect of male circumcision on the sexual enjoyment of the female partner - by K. O'Hara and J. O'Hara - BJU International (1999)
www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/ohara
- From Ritual To Science: The Medical Transformation Of Circumcision In America - By David L. Gollaher, California Health Care Institute - Journal of Social History (Fall 1994)
www.cirp.org/library/history/gollaher
- Further Fate of the Foreskin - by Jacob Oster, M.D. - British Medical Journal (1968) Recognizes the normal process of preputial separation from glans as taking up to 17 years.
www.cirp.org/library/general/oster
- I think this child has an infected penis after neonatal circumcision... - Online Pediatric Urology (Apr 1996) Case report and pictures describing complications following circumcision using the Plastibell technique.
www.infocirc.org/fourn.htm
- Informed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice - Pediatrics (Feb 1995) - AAP Committee on Bioethics analysis of 1) concept of informed consent; 2) ethics of informed consent; 3) concept of "proxy consent"; 4) concepts of parental permission and child assent; 5) informed consent of adolescents.
www.cirp.org/library/ethics/AAP
- Is Circumcision Healthy? - by Dr. Robert S. Van Howe, American Council on Science and Health - Explains adverse effects of circumcision from infancy to adulthood.
www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0904/circno.html
- Memorandum of Understanding for Circumcision Procedure - St. Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, New Mexico (31 Jan 1995) became the first hospital in the world to officially recognize R.N. Conscientious Objectors to infant circumcision.
www.cirp.org/nrc/Memorandum_of_Understandin.html
- Neonatal Circumcision Reconsidered - Transactional Analysis Journal - by JW Rhinehart MD (Jul 1999) - Describes the present status of neonatal circumcision in the U.S. and presents clinical findings on the long-term somatic, emotional, and psychological consequences of the procedure in adult men, which are seen as typical of complex post traumatic stress disorder.
www.cirp.org/library/psych/rhinehart1
- Obstetric care and proneness of offspring to suicide as adults - by Jacobson and Bygdeman, British Medical Journal - Article investigates long term effects of traumatic birth and obstetric procedures in relation to suicide by violent means as adults.
www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7169/1346
- Phimosis: Is circumcision necessary? - A review by Journal Of Paediatrics And Child Health (1996)
www.cirp.org/library/treatment/phimosis/dewan
- Psychological Impact of Circumcision - by R. Goldman - BJU International (1 Jan 1999) Report concludes that there is strong evidence that circumcision is overwhelmingly painful, traumatic and produces physical and sexual loss.
www.cirp.org/library/psych/goldman1
- R.N. Conscientious Objectors to Infant Circumcision: A Model for Nurse Empowerment - by BK Sperlich, M Conant and F Hodges - Revolution, The Journal of Nurse Empowerment (Spring 1996) Describes the historical precedent of nurses organizing and taking a leadership role in reforming the medical practice of circumcision.
www.cirp.org/nrc/R.N._Conscientious_Objecto.html
- Recent Medical Studies On Circumcision - Circumcision Results in Significant Loss of Erogenous Tissue - Circumcision Affects Sexual Behavior - Researchers Demonstrate Traumatic Effects of Circumcision - Circumcision Study Halted Due to Trauma - Circumcised Penis Requires More Care in Young Boys - Poll of Circumcised Men Reveals Harm - Psychological Effects of Circumcision Studied - Anatomy and Function of the Foreskin Documented - Male Circumcision Affects Female Sexual Enjoyment
www.circumcision.org/studies.htm
- Study shows circumcised boys are prone to penis problems - Sex And Health (Mar 1998) Circumcised toddlers require more care and are far more likely to develop penis problems than their intact counterparts.
www.cirp.org/news/1998.03:SexHealth
- The Fate Of The Foreskin: A Study Of Circumcision - By Douglas Gairdner, British Medical Journal (Dec 1949)
www.cirp.org/library/general/gairdner
- The maligned foreskin has won a clean bill of health in infants' urinary tract infections. - Physicians Weekly (22 Dec 1997) - Seek elsewhere for infant's UTI's
www.physweekly.com/archive/97/12_22_97/cu2.html
- The unkindest cut of all? - The Irish Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons report explains misguided medical rationales for circumcision.
www.cirp.org/library/general/rickwood
- Topical anesthesia for circumcision - Warning - 1996 Physicians Desk Reference - EMLA Cream is not recommended for use prior to circumcision in pediatric patients.
www.cirp.org/library/complications/EMLA
- Whither the Foreskin? - By N. Preston - This article heavily influenced the American Academy of Pediatrics, which declared in 1971 that there is no medical indication for circumcision in the neonatal period.
www.cirp.org/library/general/preston
- The Case Against Circumcision - Article by Warren and Bigelow in the British Journal of Sexual Medicine. Reported on the importance of the foreskin in sexual relations.
www.cirp.org/CIRP/library/general/warren2
- The prepuce: Specialized mucosa of the penis and its loss to circumcision - by J.R. Taylor, A.P. Lockwood and A.J. Taylor, British Journal of Urology. - Objective of the research was to assess the type and amount of tissue missing from the adult circumcised penis.
www.cirp.org/library/anatomy/taylor
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