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Book Review of Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form

Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
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I flinched early on at a misuse of the term 'palimpsest', but soldiered on through uninspiring bodily factoids until the section on genitals. This book on the body incorrectly describes the location of the clitoris. (Also its structure, but I'll give him a pass on that one since it is largely internal, and not part of his avowed topic.) Ouch.