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The case for renaming women’s body parts

Dr Leah Kaminsky
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28 September 2020
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Take a tour of the female pelvis, and you’ll encounter a few incongruous people along the way. How did James Douglas end up tucked behind the uterus?

What is Gabriel Fallopian doing hanging around the ovaries? Why is Caspar Bartholin the Younger attached to the labia?

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