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Circumcision, Genital Integrity
Marilyn Fayre Milos, RN, is the founder and director of the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers (NOCIRC) and coordinator of the International Symposia on Circumcision, Sexual Mutilations, and Genital Integrity.
She is the co-editor of Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (Plenum 1997), proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium (University of Lausanne, 1996), co-editor of Male and Female Circumcision: Medical Legal and Ethical Considerations in Pediatric Practice (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 1999), proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium (University of Oxford, 1998), co-editor of Understanding Circumcision: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a Multi-Dimensional Problem (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press 2001), proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium (University of Sydney, 2000), Flesh and Blood: Perspectives on the Problem of Circumcision in Contemporary Society (Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press, 2004), proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium (Georgetown University, 2002)and editor of the NOCIRC Annual Report, the NOCIRC Fall Update, and the NOCIRC educational series of pamphlets.
In 1988, she received the California Nurses Association's award "for her dedication and unwavering commitment to righting a wrong" and "for her work on behalf of children to raise public consciousness about America's most unnecessary surgery" and the NurseWeek Nursing Excellence Award 2001 for Patient Advocacy.
She is on the board of directors of In Spirit (In Support of Quadriplegics in Real Intense Times) and the Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children www.aTLC.org [1], a member of Association of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), and a diplomate of the American Board of Sexology.