Mezizah be-Peh: Therapeutic Touch or Hippocratic Vestige?

This is an article from Hakirah volume 3.
With the appearance of a news article in the mass-circulation New York Daily News implicating mezizah be-peh in the death of a Brooklyn newborn, this component of a traditional brit milah entered its third century of controversy. But this time, given the potency of current mass media, the issue received far broader and more intensive coverage than ever in its previous two centuries.