Flesh and Blood - Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)

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."

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2004
Editors:	George C. Denniston • Frederick Mansfield Hodges • Marilyn Fayre Milos
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	254
Edition:	2004 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-48333-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > General
LSN:	0-306-48333-5
Barcode:	9780306483332

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