A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in BritainUniversity of Chicago Press, 2005 M08 1 - 374 páginas In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfunction, from syphilis and phimosis to masturbation and bed-wetting. Thirty years later the procedure again came under hostile scrutiny, culminating in its disappearance during the 1960s. Why Britain adopted a practice it had traditionally abhorred and then abandoned it after only two generations is the subject of A Surgical Temptation. Robert Darby reveals that circumcision has always been related to the question of how to control male sexuality. This study explores the process by which the male genitals, and the foreskin especially, were pathologized, while offering glimpses into the lives of such figures as James Boswell, John Maynard Keynes, and W. H. Auden. Examining the development of knowledge about genital anatomy, concepts of health, sexual morality, the rise of the medical profession, and the nature of disease, Darby shows how these factors transformed attitudes toward the male body and its management and played a vital role in the emergence of modern medicine. |
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Contenido
Part I The European Background | 1 |
The Willful Organ Meets Fantasy Surgery | 3 |
What a Boy Once Knew about Sex | 22 |
The Masturbation Phobia and the Invention of Spermatorrhea | 44 |
Part II MedicoMoral Politics in Victorian Britain | 71 |
Sexual Morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians | 73 |
Doctors and Disease in an Antisensual Age | 94 |
William Acton and the Case against the Foreskin | 118 |
Finding a Cure for Masturbation | 189 |
The Rise and Fall of Congenital Phimosis | 215 |
Sanitizing the Modern Body | 236 |
Circumcision as a Preventive of Syphilis | 260 |
Circumcision and British Society | 285 |
The End of the Culture of Abstinence | 311 |
Notes | 321 |
References | 341 |
Clitoridectomy and Circumcision in the 1860s | 142 |
Part III The Demonization of the Foreskin | 165 |
Spermatorrhea in British Medical Practice | 167 |
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A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of ... Robert Darby Vista previa limitada - 2011 |
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Página 344 - LEA'S MEDICAL CARPENTER (WILLIAM B.), MD, FRS, &.C., Examiner in Physiology and Comparative Anatomy in the University of London. PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; with their chief applications to Psychology, Pathology, Therapeutics, Hygiene, and Forensic Medicine.
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Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political ... Robin Judd Vista previa limitada - 2007 |