A newly published article in the Journal of Medical Ethics is shaking up the medical establishment’s stance on infant circumcision. Titled “As controversies mount, circumcision policies need a rethink,” it exposes deep flaws in the conclusions of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) most recent circumcision policy. The article includes unprecedented interviews with two [...]
DOC applauds the recent publication of an article whose title effectively encapsulates some of the problems with the African circumcision campaigns. It is a melancholy reminder that we at DOC warned against such outcomes over 14 years ago, to no avail. “A new Tuskegee? Unethical human experimentation and Western neocolonialism in the mass circumcision [...]
CIRCUMCISION LINKED TO SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME A new study from the UK shows what many medical practitioners have long suspected: that there is a correlation between the stress imposed on a child at birth, and the incidence of SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, once called crib death. The study, published in the Journal [...]
This month, the AMA Journal of Ethics published a special issue on Iatrogenesis [injury or illness caused by a physician] in Pediatrics, containing two articles relating to circumcision, each with important implications for health care professionals. Svoboda JS. Nontherapeutic circumcision of minors as an ethically problematic form of iatrogenic injury. AMA J Ethics. 2017;19(8):815-24. The [...]
An important reference article entitled "Catheterization without foreskin retraction," co-authored by urologist Adrienne Carmack MD and Marilyn Fayre Milos RN, has been published in the March 2017 issue of Canadian Family Physician. The article is a valuable resource for parents whose genitally intact sons may be in need of catheterization, as well as for updating [...]
New Circumcision Survey: Long-Term Harm, Human Rights Violations SAN ANSELMO, Calif., March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new survey of men circumcised at birth documents wide-ranging adverse adult outcomes and reveals considerable dissatisfaction and resentment about the genital modification. The International Journal of Human Rights published the findings this week in an article titled "Long-term adverse outcomes from neonatal circumcision [...]
On 22 December 2016, the Journal of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and Ireland published online a large population-based study corroborating longstanding clinical knowledge that non-therapeutic circumcision puts boys at markedly elevated relative risk of USD (urethral stricture disease), including meatal stenosis (narrowing of the urinary outlet). The study found a 10-26 fold increase in [...]