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Circumcision of male infants and children as a public health measure in developed countries: A critical assessment of recent evidence

Morten FrischDepartment of Epidemiology Research, Division of Epidemiology and Disease Surveillance, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark;Department of Clinical Medicine, Center for Sexology Research, Aalborg University, Aalborg, DenmarkCorrespondence[email protected]
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Brian D. EarpThe Hastings Center Bioethics Research Institute, Garrison, NY, USAORCID Iconhttp://orcid.org/0000-0001-9691-2888View further author information
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Pages 626-641 | Received 23 Oct 2015, Accepted 23 Apr 2016, Published online: 19 May 2016

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Larissa Remennick. (2022) Joining the tribe: adult circumcision among immigrant men in Israel and its traumatic aftermath. Culture, Health & Sexuality 24:5, pages 702-716.
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Robert S. Van Howe. (2018) Expertise or ideology? A response to Morris et al. 2016, ‘Circumcision is a primary preventive against HIV infection: Critique of a contrary meta-regression analysis by Van Howe’. Global Public Health 13:12, pages 1900-1918.
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Brian D. Earp, Lauren M. Sardi & William A. Jellison. (2018) False beliefs predict increased circumcision satisfaction in a sample of US American men. Culture, Health & Sexuality 20:8, pages 945-959.
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Stephen Moreton, Guy Cox, Mark Sheldon, Stefan A Bailis, Jeffrey D Klausner & Brian J Morris. (2023) Comments by opponents on the British Medical Association’s guidance on non-therapeutic male circumcision of children seem one-sided and may undermine public health. World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics 12:5, pages 244-262.
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Megha Uberoi, Jasmine Abdulcadir, Dana A. Ohl, Javier E. Santiago, Gurpreet K. Rana & Frank W. J. Anderson. (2022) Potentially under-recognized late-stage physical and psychosexual complications of non-therapeutic neonatal penile circumcision: a qualitative and quantitative analysis of self-reports from an online community forum. International Journal of Impotence Research 35:3, pages 234-241.
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Michel Garenne. (2022) Age-incidence and prevalence of HIV among intact and circumcised men: an analysis of PHIA surveys in Southern Africa. Journal of Biosocial Science, pages 1-13.
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