Tag: Adolf Portmann
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Medicine’s “Naming of the Parts”: Less instrumentalism and more aesthetics?
Alan BleakleyPlymouth, United Kingdom The English poet Henry Reed first published “Naming of the Parts” in 1942. English schoolchildren of my generation, born soon after WWII, learned this poem by heart. But we were too young to know, and perhaps our English teachers failed to notice, that the poem is full of sexual innuendo. Ostensibly,…
