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100 1 $aDarby, Robert$q(Robert J. L.)
245 12 $aA surgical temptation :$bthe demonization of the foreskin and the rise of circumcision in Britain /$cRobert Darby.
260 $aChicago :$bUniversity of Chicago Press,$c2005.
300 $axi, 374 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 321-364) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction : the willful organ meets fantasy surgery -- $g2.$tThe best of your property : what a boy once knew about sex -- $g3.$tPathologizing male sexuality : the masturbation phobia and the invention of spermatorrhea -- $g4.$tThe shadow of Parson Malthus : sexual morals from the Georgians to the Edwardians -- $g5.$tThe priests of the body : doctors and disease in an antisensual age -- $g6.$tA source of serious mischief : William Acton and the case against the foreskin -- $g7.$tA compromising and unpublishable mutilation : clitoridectomy and circumcision in the 1860s -- $g8.$tOne of the most grievous diseases of humanity : spermatorrhea in British medical practice -- $g9.$tThe besetting trial of our boys : finding a cure for masturbation -- $g10.$tThis unyielding tube of flesh : the rise and fall of congenital phimosis -- $g11.$tPrevention is better than cure : sanitizing the modern body -- $g12.$tThe purity movement and the social evil : circumcision as a preventive of syphilis -- $g13.$tThe stigmata of a gentleman : circumcision and British society -- $g14.$tConclusion : the end of the culture of abstinence.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCircumcision$xHistory.
650 0 $aCircumcision$xSocial aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004027996.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/uchi051/2004027996.html
852 00 $bleh$hGN484$i.D37 2005