A proposed relationship between circumcision and neural reorganization.

The writers propose that circumcision exemplifies the subtlety and complexity of the linkages and causal feedback loops among humans' symbolic world, cultural world, and physical bodies. They hypothesize that circumcision reorganizes the male's sensory somato-cortex to increase the threshold of sex...

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Publicado en:Journal of Genetic Psychology Vol. 159; no. 3; pp. 367 - 379
Autores principales: Immerman, Ronald S., Mackey, Wade C.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd September 1998
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