Marked in your flesh : circumcision from ancient Judea to modern America / Leonard B. Glick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glick, Leonard B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Circumcision--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Circumcision.

Circumcision--History.

Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.

Judaism.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Jewish physicians--Germany--History.

Jewish physicians.

Medicine--United States--History.

Medicine.

Medicine--England--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book offers a history of Jewish and Christian beliefs about circumcision from its ancient origins to the controversy about the ethics of performing such surgery on helpless infants.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-360) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-988423-4

0-19-531594-4

1-281-19727-0

1-4356-1859-9

9786611197278

0-19-803925-5

OCLC:

63294902