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Ritual Circumcision in the Age of Germ Theory Amongst Nineteenth-Century New York Immigrants

While Jewish ritual circumcision continues to be a controversial issue in Europe and the US, metzitzah b’peh, the addendum to brit milah, which requires the mohel (ritual peritomist) to orally suck blood from the wound immediately following the excision of the foreskin, remains a divisive topic. Whi...

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Autor principal: Poliak, Daniel B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3865957/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24069918
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2013.40