FROM RITUAL TO SCIENCE: THE MEDICAL TRANSFORMATION OF CIRCUMCISION IN AMERICA

The article provides a historical view. You'll find that circumcision once was recommended for epilepsy, lunacy, chorea, hernia, orthopedic problems, cancer,...

BTW, the article is a decade old which doesn't matter for the medical history part. But the remarks on the contemporary state of the art are to be read with that in mind. For instance, he complains that the AIDS studies done were only retrospective studies and therefore methodologically flawed. Meanwhile there are also prospective studies (for instance SCIENCE, Vol 309, Issue 5736, 860 , 5 August 2005).

Wolfgang