X-rated! prudeness in medicine?!
Today we had another well held physiology lecture,
about the vegetative nervous system, by Prof. Uwe Heinemann, who is the boss in
the university's Institute of Physiology, but he had to exclude the effects on
sexual functions!
I couldn't believe it, but in the evaluation of the
teaching, which is held in this university since a few years, 40 % of the
students complained about the pornographic contents of his
lectures!
The background story is, that a good friend of his and co-author of the well-known physiology book "Schmidt-Thews - Human Physiology" included a chapter in this book about the effects and regulation processes of the vegetative nervous system on the sexual functions. Thus this professor was somehow excluded from a university chair at a university, being accused of publishing pornographic material!
Our professor then included this delicate subject in his own lectures, only to see a similar reaction in above mentioned commentary made by students.
Honestly, nothing should be taboo in this study, especially not something that natural. I would even call these facts harmless! I can't believe any modern young student who chooses medicine can be that prude. He didn't ask them to strip naked and explore it in a practical exercise, so what the f*** is their problem? They talk about vomiting and defecation, but how an erection develops (depicted separate from any intercourse, I have to emphasize) is too pornographic to talk about?!?
I will inquire dates and locations of the incidences and update on this.
How can it be that a respected professor has to apologize and explain, that unfortunately he had to skip a part of the learning material, and advice the students that they'll have to read it up at home by themselves?
Is this, because the HU Charité is an old east-berlin institution?
Anyone with a different view? Write me.
The background story is, that a good friend of his and co-author of the well-known physiology book "Schmidt-Thews - Human Physiology" included a chapter in this book about the effects and regulation processes of the vegetative nervous system on the sexual functions. Thus this professor was somehow excluded from a university chair at a university, being accused of publishing pornographic material!
Our professor then included this delicate subject in his own lectures, only to see a similar reaction in above mentioned commentary made by students.
Honestly, nothing should be taboo in this study, especially not something that natural. I would even call these facts harmless! I can't believe any modern young student who chooses medicine can be that prude. He didn't ask them to strip naked and explore it in a practical exercise, so what the f*** is their problem? They talk about vomiting and defecation, but how an erection develops (depicted separate from any intercourse, I have to emphasize) is too pornographic to talk about?!?
I will inquire dates and locations of the incidences and update on this.
How can it be that a respected professor has to apologize and explain, that unfortunately he had to skip a part of the learning material, and advice the students that they'll have to read it up at home by themselves?
Is this, because the HU Charité is an old east-berlin institution?
Anyone with a different view? Write me.
Posted: Mo - November 3, 2003 at 02:45 Uhr
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