tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post859676896803692258..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: The Anatomy Classhederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-75238601752514827312010-07-24T22:20:32.638-07:002010-07-24T22:20:32.638-07:00Linkmeister, we were in Philadelphia last summer, ...Linkmeister, we were in Philadelphia last summer, but we didn't get to the Mutter Museum, we went to the Univ. of Pennsylvania Anthropology Museum, which was pretty interesting but didn't have anything like what Wikipedia describes...hederahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-26495345687921740072010-07-24T09:45:02.954-07:002010-07-24T09:45:02.954-07:00I wonder how "primitive" man viewed bloo...I wonder how "primitive" man viewed bloody bodies. Is our squeamishness somehow evidence of some unhealthy separation, of an insulation from the real? Were pain and pleasure aspects of the holy apprehension of higher, truer states of being? <br /><br />Are we tampering with something inviolable as we dissect and manipulate our bodies? <br /><br />My revulsion with the gory and ghastly seems a primitive, immature emotion, which might be eviscerated through training, hardening, armoring. Is physicians' trademark cynicism and indifference to pain a gift, or a curse?Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-27594185048831979992010-07-23T23:20:28.078-07:002010-07-23T23:20:28.078-07:00If you make it to Philadelphia, try The Mutter Mus...If you make it to Philadelphia, try <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCtter_Museum" rel="nofollow">The Mutter Museum</a>. Skulls and other really odd material are on exhibit.Linkmeisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00576347754628145004noreply@blogger.com