View Signature DetailsClick here to go back to the list of signatures Name: Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1903-1998) Address: CT USA Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock (Opens in a new window) Birthdate: May 02, 1903 Gender: Male Education: Completed Post-Graduate College Occupation: --- PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Pediatrician and Author Award/Prize/Recognition: Humanist of the Year (1968) Comments: Humanist of The Year (1968) Internationally renowned pediatrician and author of "Baby and Child Care", stated in its Sixth Edition (1985): "Now that circumcision is not recommended to stop masturbation and now that the theory about cervical cancer has been disproved, there is no excuse for the operation- except as a religious rite. And retraction is painful and unnecessary. So, I strongly recommend leaving the foreskin alone." And in Redbook, April, 1989, he wrote: "My own prefernce, if I had the good fortune to have another son, would be to leave his little penis alone." |