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019517674X (cloth : alk. paper)
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0195315944 (pbk.)
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Glick, Leonard B.
Marked in your flesh :
circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America /
Leonard B. Glick.
Oxford ;
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
xiv, 370 p. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-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.
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.
Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0639/2004020069-d.html
Book review (H-Net)
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11858
Contributor biographical information
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2004020069-b.html
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