Roundtable: "Just a Snip"?: A Social History of Male Circumcision

Reproductive Health Matters

Volumn 15, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 15-21

  Aggleton, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CIRCUMCISION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDEMA; EGYPT; ENURESIS; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; GANGRENE; GREECE; HIP DISEASE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; IMPOTENCE; INFECTION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PAIN; PARALYSIS; POLITICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; SKIN DEFECT; SOCIAL ASPECT; TISSUE INJURY; URINE RETENTION; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CIRCUMCISION, MALE; COLONIALISM; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; POLITICS; RELIGION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 34248641129     PISSN: 09688080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-8080(07)29303-6     Document Type: Note

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