Ist zwar schon älter aber hatten wir hier glaube ich noch nicht und ist auf jeden Fall interessant.
Robert Darby bespricht das bekannte und lesenswerte Buch von David Gollaher, "Circumcision: A history of the world's most controversial surgery".
Ich wusste auch noch gar nicht, dass eine Vorhautamputation sogar Metalldampffieber [brass poisoning] heilen kann, Potzblitz! 
Nor does Gollaher examine the reasons why so many of the keenest advocates of universal circumcision have themselves been doctors with a Jewish background: from M.J. Moses and Abraham Wolbarst at the turn of the century to Edgar Schoen and Aaron Fink in recent times, many of the most eloquent and determined supporters of circumcision for all boys have themselves been Jews. It is impossible not to wonder whether their enthusiasm for circumcision is less an effect of their medical training than of their being brought up in a system of religious belief which teaches that the foreskin is "more unclean than all unclean things ... a blemish above all blemishes" and that "all who bathe with the uncircumcised are as though they bathed with carrion", as a Midrash text of the second century put it.
In time the operation will probably come to be seen as yet another deluded fad [wollen wir mal stark hoffen!], along with bleeding, the water cure, electro-convulsive therapy [oder die radioactive quackery] and frontal lobotomies, an innovation for which Egas Moniz once received a Nobel Prize. These days the practitioners of infant circumcision are more likely to face claims for damages in a court of law than the plaudits of the Swedish Academy.