{"product_id":"circumcision-and-medicine-in-modern-turkey-hardback-9781477327029","title":"Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey (Hardback) 9781477327029","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCircumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eOyman Basaran (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477327029, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 April 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages, 1 b\u0026amp;w image\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eCircumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey\u003c\/i\u003e closely examines the experiences of twenty-five cities and their outlying towns across Turkey. By analyzing the changing characteristics of the medical actors, Başaran offers an alternate approach to the study of what is a central part of the Turkish male experience.\u003c\/div\u003e (Bowdoin) \u003cdiv\u003eSociologist Başaran (Bowdoin College) uses the seemingly mundane topic of male circumcision as a point of entry into a very well-integrated historical and ethnographic examination of modernization, medicine, religion, family, rural-to-urban migration, economics, and municipal and state politics in Turkey. . . . Highly insightful and illuminating.\u003c\/div\u003e (CHOICE) \u003cdiv\u003e[This book] is beautifully written and edited. The clarity of prose will make the book’s rich ideas accessible to broad audiences...The book clearly shows that medicine is a social practice, one that cannot be separated from its broader contexts.\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boys, as communities celebrate the ritual through gatherings, gifts, and special outfits. Yet the procedure is a potentially painful and traumatic ordeal. With the expansion of modern medicine, the social position of \u003ci\u003esÜnnetÇi\u003c\/i\u003e (male circumcisers) became subject to the institutional arrangements of Turkey’s evolving health care and welfare system. In the transition from traditional itinerant circumcisers to low-ranking health officers in the 1960s and hospital doctors in the 1990s, the medicalization of male circumcision has become entangled with state formation, market fetishism, and class inequalities. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Based on Oyman Başaran’s extensive ethnographic and historical research, \u003ci\u003eCircumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey\u003c\/i\u003e is a close examination of the socioreligious practice of circumcision in twenty-five cities and their outlying towns and villages in Turkey. By analyzing the changing subjectivity of medical actors who seek to alleviate suffering in male circumcision, Başaran offers a psychoanalytically informed alternate approach to the standard sociological arguments surrounding medicalization and male circumcision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Prologue \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: SÜ\u003cbr\u003ennetÇ\u003cbr\u003ei, Pain, and Medicine \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Itinerant Circumcisers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. Fenni SÜ\u003cbr\u003ennetÇ\u003cbr\u003ei \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. Mass Circumcision \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Fear of Circumcison \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. “\u003cbr\u003eDeceitful Child”\u003cbr\u003e and “\u003cbr\u003eBad Parents”\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Conclusion: The Ethics and Politics of Male Circumcision \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Appendix: Research Methodology \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e References \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52740237426968,"sku":"9781477327029","price":36.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/circumcision-and-medicine-in-modern-turkey-hardback-9781477327029","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}