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Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America
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- Creator
- Leonard B. Glick
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 370 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195176742, 019517674X, 9780195315943, 0195315944
- OCLC
- ocm56404795
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-360) and index.
- "This is my covenant": circumcision in the world of Temple Judaism -- "Great is circumcision": Christian condemnation, Jewish veneration -- "Offering incense to heaven": Jewish circumcision in medieval and early modern Europe -- "The height of foulness": circumcision in European religious and popular culture -- "Trembling of the hands": radical changes in a pivotal century -- Good sanitarians: circumcision medicalized -- "This little operation": Jewish American physicians and twentieth-century circumcision advocacy -- Unanswerable questions, questionable answers: justifying ritual circumcision -- "Deep feelings of nervousness": circumnavigating the taboo topic
Subjects
- Circumcision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
- Circumcision -- History.
- Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
- Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
- Jewish physicians -- Germany -- History.
- Medicine -- United States -- History.
- Medicine -- England -- History.
- Circumcision, Male -- history.
Medical Subject Heading
- Judaism -- history.
Medical Subject Heading