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American physician (1852–1943)
John Harvey Kellogg promoted circumcision in late-19th/early-20th-century America as a medical and moral tool against masturbation and “self-abuse,” and he linked dietary, hygienic and moral reform in...
John Harvey Kellogg argued in the late 19th century that circumcision served both medical and moral ends: medically as a preventative or curative procedure for what physicians of his era labeled “self...
During John Harvey Kellogg’s era (late 19th to early 20th century) circumcision was promoted in the United States through a mix of cultural hygiene rhetoric, religiously inflected moralism, and racial...
A cluster of 18th– and especially 19th‑century physicians and medical writers promoted circumcision as a remedy to what they regarded as the medical and moral crisis of masturbation; notable names and...