Religious circumcision: A Jewish view

BJU International, Supplement

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-21

  Glass, J M ^a,b  

^a NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; BLEEDING; CIRCUMCISION; FEMALE; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; JEW; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIGION; SHORT SURVEY; STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; URINE RETENTION; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; JEWS; JUDAISM; MALE; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0033026109     PISSN: 14655101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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