Książka The Normal Thing to Be Ryan Jones

The Normal Thing to Be

How Infant Circumcision Became a Global Health Agenda

Autor: Ryan Jones
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Infant circumcision has been an American norm since the mid-twentieth century. At the dawn of the tw...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
2026
strony
268
EAN
9781727660777
ISBN
1727660773
Enbook ID
52960276
Waga
244
Wymiary
127 x 203 x 17

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Infant circumcision has been an American norm since the mid-twentieth century. At the dawn of the twenty-first, health officials harnessed it as a public health intervention against HIV abroad. No other surgery has ever been deployed this way, much less one performed on children too young to consent. This led to inevitable controversy.

The Normal Thing to Be is an in-depth account of how a small network of primarily American researchers and government officials made it happen. Drawing on years of Freedom of Information requests, internal government correspondence, and original interviews, Ryan Jones traces a decades-long campaign that stretched across the CDC, the NIH, and the WHO. Its architects tried to box skeptics out of the policy process, fought running battles in academic journals and the press, and dismissed every dissenter as fringe, regardless of credentials. Intense pushback from the concerned public was largely ignored. The goal was to normalize the needless removal of healthy tissue from children, at home and abroad. What was the result?