Jewish circumcision: An alternative perspective

BJU International, Supplement

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22-27

  Goodman, J ^a  

^a c/o BJU ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEEDING; CIRCUMCISION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHICS; FATHER; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; JEW; MALE; MOTHER; NEWBORN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREPUCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CULTURE; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; JEWS; JUDAISM; MALE; MOTHERS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0032989019     PISSN: 14655101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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