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Article: Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America.(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2007
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Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America. By Leonard B. Glick. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 370. $30.00.)
The current debate over the routine nonreligious circumcision of newborn males in the United States--the only country where this occurs in large numbers is, for a minority, part of a decades-old ethical discussion. For others, however, it is an uncomfortable, little-understood topic, and many have scarcely acknowledged that there is a controversy at all. This is odd, given that so many males in the United States are physically marked in a way that in the time of their great-grandparents was largely reserved ...