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Bhimji: Infant Male Circumcision—A Violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Addendum

Kluge: Female Circumcision—When Medical Ethics Confronts Cultural Values
Smith: Male Circumcision and the Rights of the Child (Netherlands)
From the archives:
Key events: 1900 — 1999
Selected items: 1960s to 1980s
Neonatal male circumcision after delisting in Ontario (1997)
Case-control study of counselling against neonatal circumcision (1983)
Vancouver items from 1947 and 1953




Circumcision rates

Canada
United States
Australia


Excerpt from book

Dr. Margaret A. Somerville, Founding Director of McGill University's Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law, is one of Canada's most prominent medical ethicists. In her book, The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit, Dr. Somerville devotes an entire chapter to the subject of infant male circumcision. This chapter is available online.


Foreskin restoration

Article from HealthWatch Magazine (Canada), Fall, 2001


Medical evidence

Anatomy and function of the foreskin
Weighing the foreskin's value (Medical Post, Jan. 9, 2001)
Complications of circumcision
"Benefits"
Female circumcision (FGM)
Classification of genital mutilation