Circumcision: What should be done?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 459-462

  Ben Yami, Hanoch ^a  

^a CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

AGE; ANESTHESIA; ART; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CIRCUMCISION; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; FREEDOM; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFANT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; NEWBORN; PERSONHOOD; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; RIGHTS; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SUCTION; SYMBOLISM;

CIRCUMCISION; MORAL AND RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; RIGHTS;

AGE FACTORS; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ATTITUDE; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; CIRCUMCISION, MALE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FREEDOM; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN BODY; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PERSONHOOD; PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SUCTION;

EID: 84879812296     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101274     Document Type: Article

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