Because the Academia Doesn’t Look Nearly Ridiculous Enough

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Clarissa

June 5, 2012

The Morehouse School of Medicine announced last week that it has raised $2 million to endow a chair that will focus on sexuality and religion, the Associated Press reported. The chair will focus on ways to train physicians and theologians on sexual health issues that include contraception, rape prevention, unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. A spokeswoman for the Association of American Medical Colleges said she did not know of a similar endowed chair at any other medical school.

Yeah, because there is a limit on a number of ridiculous programs of pseudo study that the American academia can deal with. Physicians and theologians? Why not athletes and brick layers? Or computer programmers and janitors? If we are going to be random why not go all the way?

And how are physicians and theologians going to prevent rape? The only effective way of rape prevention I can imagine is for rapists to stop raping. Is there a reason why physicians and theologians are singled out for the task of rape prevention?

I’m not even asking why theologians should have anything to do with STDs. Are they going to cure them with prayer or theological disputes?

This Morehouse School of Medicine should have raised salaries for its adjuncts and postdocs instead of wasting money on this kind of idiocies.

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3 responses to “Because the Academia Doesn’t Look Nearly Ridiculous Enough”

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June 5, 2012

Maybe it is going to be about physicians installing into theologists a healthier view of human sexuality? Does something like that deserve endowed chair? I guess in the States it does.
And rape prevention?.. I guess it is an artifact of proposal-writing. When one writes a proposal, one includes all possible benefits, however remote. (Not even because one is personally inclined towards that activity sometimes bordering with BS 🙂 – there is usually a box in the proposal form where one has to include benefits to the society.) And one could argue that healthy attitudes about sexuality, spread by theologists, could decrease rape.

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n8chz

June 6, 2012

Physicians and clergy members have at least one important thing in common. They are on the short list of professionals to whom one can speak entirely off the record, immune, in theory, at least, even from police investigations. I think Morehouse is onto something.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  June 6, 2012
  
  Then why not physicians and psychologists? Or physicians and lawyers?
  
  I don’t see how police investigations are relevant here. Whose sexual health is being so massively investigated by the police?
  
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