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Recommendation for an accurate anatomy text?

post #1 of 5
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Our local food co-op has an awesome selection of progressive books. BUT they have one book on anatomy and physiology that - you guessed it - completely ignores the foreskin. Pictures show circumcised penises, absolutely no mention in the text about the foreskin. I'm going to talk to them about it (they wouldn't stock a book that just totally omitted the clitoris, or the spleen for example) but I would like to be able to suggest an alternative for them to stock. Sadly, I myself have never seen an accurate anatomy textbook so I don't know what to tell them.
Thanks!
Jen
post #2 of 5
Anything from the UK would probably do. All the ones I've seen from the UK are accurate. I do have a "Dictionary of Science" which I think is either from Australia or the UK and it shows and has labelled the prepuce. Sorry I can't be more specific.
post #3 of 5
A book for artists


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078948045X/


http://www.circumstitions.com/Books.html



Unlike most anatomy books, includes a section on the genitals, with four photographs of different lengths of foreskin and one of a circumcised penis.



Sarah Simblet
Anatomy for the Artist
with photographs by John Davis
post #4 of 5
I'm taking A&P right now and I feel your frustration. The only mention of the foreskin is when a few sentences talk about it covering the end of the penis and it frequently gets removed during a circumcision. : But there's a whole paragragh about the clitoris.
post #5 of 5
I have three anatomy textbooks and one anatomy atlas. I just looked up the sections on male reproductive anatomy, and all three texts mention the prepuce and point it out in at least one figure. However, most figures or pictures are of circ'd penises. The worst of the three (Martini et al's "Human Anatomy" 4th ed.) talks about how the prepuce is a smegma trap, and smegma is great bacteria food, which means lots of inflammation and infections, but there's this procedure called circ which can prevent all that, blah blah :Puke. The second one (McKinley & O'Loughlin's "Human Anatomy" 2nd ed.) attempts to give a pro/con list, with pros being all that garbage about UTI and HIV prevention, and cons including babies aren't always given anesthesia and "might" feel pain. The third (Moore & Dalley's "Clinically Oriented Anatomy" 4th ed.) explains phimosis and paraphimosis and how they're reasons that adults would get circ'd. It says RIC is the most common surgery, often performed in certain religions though done mostly for nonreligious reasons, but gives no mention what those reasons may be. The one drawing they include of a flaccid penis has lots of skin wrinkles behind the glans, so I guess you could argue the foreskin is there, just retracted. I can't exactly give that one an enthusiastic thumbs up, though at least it's not offensive.

The best one I have is the atlas, Netter's "Atlas of Human Anatomy," 4th ed. It doesn't have text and so is probably not the kind of thing you're looking for. All the drawings of penises shown with skin, except for one, include a foreskin.
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