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Article: An examination of legal and ethical issues surrounding male circumcision: the Canadian context.
- Article from:
- International Journal of Men's Health
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
- Author:
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Despite shifts in the discourses adopted and reinforced within the Canadian medical community and indeed the international community, routine neonatal male circumcision remains fairly normalized. Focusing on the Canadian context, this paper outlines the health-based and legal arguments against elective infant male circumcision. Part one provides an overview of routine neonatal male circumcision and deals with the crucial distinction between therapeutic and nontherapeutic intervention. It locates elective neonatal male circumcision within the nontherapeutic category. Part two outlines the theoretical underpinnings for medical consent in the Canadian context and discusses ...