Non-therapeutic infant male circumcision: Evidence, ethics, and international law perspectives

Abdullah Alkhenizan; Kossay Elabd

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Non-therapeutic infant male circumcision

Evidence, ethics, and international law perspectives

Abdullah Alkhenizan and Kossay Elabd

Saudi Medical Journal September 2016, 37 (9) 941-947; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.9.14519

Abdullah Alkhenizan

From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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Kossay Elabd

From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

MRCGP

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Received February 4, 2016
Accepted June 19, 2016
Published online September 1, 2016.

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Abdullah Alkhenizan, FCFP, MSc ⇑ and
Kossay Elabd, MRCGP

From the Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abdullah Alkhenizan, Department of Family Medicine and Polyclinic, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: alkhenizan{at}hotmail.com

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