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A covenant with the status quo? Male circumcision and the new BMA guidance to doctors

Visit http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/8/463.abstract?sid=d83f1735-3009-4464-9e24-ca94c3140d1a

Article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 31, Issue 8, 2005;31:463-469 doi:10.1136/jme.2004.009340. The authors conclude that "it is ethically inappropriate to subject children—male or female—to the acknowledged risks of circumcision and contend that there is no compelling legal authority for the common view that male circumcision is lawful."

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Circumcision and the Code of Ethics

Visit http://www.cirp.org/library/ethics/denniston/

Article published in Humane Health Care International, Volume 12, Number 2: Pages 78-80, April 1996. Circumcision is the act of one person removing a part of the penis of another person.

  • Infant circumcision violates the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. (Many pro-circ advocates say it is necessary to circumcise infants because adults will not want it done).
  • Infant circumcision violates a major tenet of medical practice: First do no harm.
  • Infant circumcision violates all seven Principles of Medical Ethics.
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Circumcision policy: A psychosocial perspective

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An article by Ronald Goldman, PhD, published in Paediatrics & Chid Health, Vol. 9, No. 9, pp. 630-33 (November 2003).  The article provides a very good overview of the current social standing of male infant circumcision. The author makes the point that the current reluctance to confront the religious issue undermines the core values (e.g., the health of the patient is paramount) and ethics (e.g., first, do no harm) that drive medical decision-making.

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Cutting through red tape: non-therapeutic circumcision and unethical guidelines

Visit http://ce.rsmjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/4/4/181

Paper published in Clinical Ethics, 2009;4:181-186.  doi:10.1258/ce.2009.009029. David Shaw, Faculty of Medicine and Centre for Applied Ethics & Legal Philosophy, University of Glasgow, writes that the current General Medical Council (GMC) guidelines are flawed in stating that any doctor who does not wish to carry out a non-therapeutic circumcision (NTC) on a boy must invoke conscientious objection.

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Male genital mutilation: Beyond the tolerable?

Visit http://etn.sagepub.com/content/10/2/181.abstract

Paper published in Ethnicities, June 2010 vol. 10 no. 2 181-207. doi: 10.1177/1468796810361654. The author argues that the assumption that there is no harm and, consequently, no reason to intervene against male circumcision, is an erroneous assumption. He highlights evidence that suggests that, according to the criteria of sexual diminution, pain and coercion employed to criticize FGM, circumcision can be viewed as a harmful act of Male Genital Mutilation (MGM).

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The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision

Visit http://www.genderacrossborders.com/2009/11/06/the-ethics-of-neonatal-circumcision/

Gender Across Borders, a global feminist blog, discusses the ethics of infant circumcision. The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision considers personal autonomy. The person undergoing routine infant circumcision is an infant who has not consented to the surgery, which lacks a clear medical need.

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The law and ethics of male circumcision - guidance for doctors

Visit http://www.bma.org.uk/ethics/consent_and_capacity/malecircumcision2006.jsp

British Medical Association page from November 2007 discussing the Law and ethics of male circumcision. The paper states that routine infant circumcision is permitted by UK law. The BMA discusses ethics without declaring if routine infant circumcision is ethical or not.

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