http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/06/27/circumcision-in-germany-the-courts-speak/ Journal of Medical Ethics blog Thu, 18 Apr 2013 03:49:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/06/27/circumcision-in-germany-the-courts-speak/#comment-4508 Guest Sun, 08 Jul 2012 12:47:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=1869#comment-4508 Didn’t go to all of it but I thought ‘Circumcision’ was one of the best sessions at the Congress, and interestingly featured the best-looking men – of a certain age!  Audience discussion interesting in that momentum is gathering amongst some Jewish communities for a ceremony of (Hebrew) naming of the child without the cutting taking place. Other discussions included possible lessening of sexual pleasure reported by those who had been circumcised as adults; cases cited included deaths from circumcision.  The first half of the symposium which I missed apparently concentrated on the controversy as to whether circumcision lessens the transmission of HIV. 

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/06/27/circumcision-in-germany-the-courts-speak/#comment-4497 Iain Brassington Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:55:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=1869#comment-4497 Were I an American, I’d gesture vaguely in the direction of the fifth amendment.

]]> http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2012/06/27/circumcision-in-germany-the-courts-speak/#comment-4496 Peter Herissone-Kelly Fri, 29 Jun 2012 10:51:00 +0000 http://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/?p=1869#comment-4496 ”
I’m writing this while listening to Mary Warnock talking at the IAB …”. Surely you’re writing it while not really listening to Mary Warnock?

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