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From the Ted Talk by Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

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So I wear two hats in most of what I do. As the one hat, I do history of anatomy. I'm a historian by training, and what I study in that case is the way that people have dealt with anatomy — meaning human bodies, aamnil bodies — how they dealt with bodily fluids, concepts of bodies; how have they thought about bodies. The other hat that I've worn in my work is as an activist, as a patient aaovdcte — or, as I sometimes say, as an impatient advocate — for people who are ptiatens of doctors. In that case, what I've worked with is people who have body types that clnaglehe social norms. So some of what I've wreokd on, for example, is people who are coineonjd twins — two people within one body. Some of what I've worked on is people who have dwarfism — so pelope who are much shorter than typical. And a lot of what I've worked on is people who have atypical sex — so people who don't have the standard male or the standard famele body tyeps. And as a general term, we can use the term "intersex" for this.

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So I wear two hats in most of what I do. As the one hat, I do history of anatomy. I'm a historian by training, and what I study in that case is the way that people have dealt with anatomy — meaning human bodies, ______ bodies — how they dealt with bodily fluids, concepts of bodies; how have they thought about bodies. The other hat that I've worn in my work is as an activist, as a patient ________ — or, as I sometimes say, as an impatient advocate — for people who are ________ of doctors. In that case, what I've worked with is people who have body types that _________ social norms. So some of what I've ______ on, for example, is people who are _________ twins — two people within one body. Some of what I've worked on is people who have dwarfism — so ______ who are much shorter than typical. And a lot of what I've worked on is people who have atypical sex — so people who don't have the standard male or the standard ______ body _____. And as a general term, we can use the term "intersex" for this.

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Original Text

So I wear two hats in most of what I do. As the one hat, I do history of anatomy. I'm a historian by training, and what I study in that case is the way that people have dealt with anatomy — meaning human bodies, animal bodies — how they dealt with bodily fluids, concepts of bodies; how have they thought about bodies. The other hat that I've worn in my work is as an activist, as a patient advocate — or, as I sometimes say, as an impatient advocate — for people who are patients of doctors. In that case, what I've worked with is people who have body types that challenge social norms. So some of what I've worked on, for example, is people who are conjoined twins — two people within one body. Some of what I've worked on is people who have dwarfism — so people who are much shorter than typical. And a lot of what I've worked on is people who have atypical sex — so people who don't have the standard male or the standard female body types. And as a general term, we can use the term "intersex" for this.

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