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Celebrating Phallos

Healing Men and Culture

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Male and Female Circumcision

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Poetry speaks a different language. It communicates to the heart and captures an essence of experience that is more spirit than mind. Poetry and the other creative arts add an important voice to the chorus of those speaking out against circumcision. They bring culture and science together. In this exploration of culture and male circumcision, a place for poetry is identified.

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  1. University of Washington, Seanle, Washington

    George C. Denniston

  2. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, England

    Frederick Mansfield Hodges

  3. National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers, San Anselmo, California

    Marilyn Fayre Milos

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Zoske, J. (1999). Celebrating Phallos. In: Denniston, G.C., Hodges, F.M., Milos, M.F. (eds) Male and Female Circumcision. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-39937-9_22

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