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Male Non-Therapeutic Circumcision

The Legal and Ethical Issues

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The word “therapeutic” has been well described in Marion’s case, in the Australian Supreme Court: A treatment is therapeutic when it is administered for the chief purpose of preventing, removing or ameliorating a cosmetic deformity, a pathological condition or a psychological disorder, provided that the treatment is appropriate for and proportionate to the purpose for which it is administered.

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    George C. Denniston

  2. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

    Frederick Mansfield Hodges

  3. National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, California

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

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Price, C. (1999). Male Non-Therapeutic Circumcision. In: Denniston, G.C., Hodges, F.M., Milos, M.F. (eds) Male and Female Circumcision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-39937-9_37

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