• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: In Reply: Circumcision and the Tribe
  • Contributor: Spock, Benjamin
  • imprint: American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 1962
  • Published in: Pediatrics
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1542/peds.29.4.678
  • ISSN: 0031-4005; 1098-4275
  • Keywords: Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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  • Description: <jats:p>1. If I could only find the secret of how to know for sure what is best for children's welfare, I too could write more authoritatively. Meanwhile I'm glad there are parents to share the responsibility with. They antedated all the child care professions by thousands of years, and most of them have kept their feet on the ground during the shifting professional doctrines of the twentieth century.</jats:p> <jats:p>2. I gave what I thought were several good reasons for circumcision.</jats:p>