Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey / / Oyman Basaran.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Basaran, Oyman,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 1 b&w image
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Prologue --; Introduction: Sünnetçİ, Pain, and Medicine --; 1 Itinerant Circumcisers --; 2 Fennİ Sünnetçİ --; 3 Mass Circumcision --; 4 Fear of Circumcision --; 5 “Deceitful Child” and “Bad Parents” --; Conclusion. The Ethics and Politics of Male Circumcision --; Appendix. Research Methodology --; Notes --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781477327036; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111319094; 9783111318127; 9783110797824
• DOI: 10.7560/327029
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Oyman Basaran.

An investigation of how the expansion of modern medicine in Turkey transformed young boys’ experiences of circumcision. 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 sünnetçi (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. Based on Oyman Başaran’s extensive ethnographic and historical research, Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey 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.