Circumcision, is this Practice Ethical?
The debate of circumcision is a strong and ongoing one. From the beginning of medically preformed circumcisions, doctors have claimed a wide variety of benefits from this procedure. The most recent of these claims being the reduction in the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), commonly known to be the virus that causes AIDS. The rebuttal from those opposing the routine non-therapeutic circumcision of infant males is that the data collected from a few different studies is not sufficient enough to make this a necessary procedure. There is a lot of debate about informed consent among other issues. Going along with the debate of informed consent it can easily be said that doctors, by routinely performing circumcisions, are bordering on the edge of malpractice.
Medically performed circumcision came to be in approximately 1865 in England and 1870 in the United States (CIRP, 2005). This procedure was believed to cure the disease......

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