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title: "Touring Your Body, One Story at a Time"
date: 2008-05-13T20:58:45-04:00
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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# Touring Your Body, One Story at a Time

By Christine Cupaiuolo • May 13, 2008

Please note: This entry -- originally posted at [Our Bodies, Our Blog](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog) -- has not been updated since the publication date listed above.

The New York Times today published a pull-out special section, "[A Guided Tour of Your Body](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/13/health/20080513_WELLGUIDE.html)," with articles and advice on healthy aging for every body part.  
  
The graphics are a bit surreal to look at in print, but it makes more sense online, where each body part is an interactive link to a related story (don't say you weren't warned that the shoulders and knees lead to nowhere). Online additions include links to exercises, test-your-knowledge quizzes and health risk calculators.  
  
**Update**: The knee now connects, as you might expect, to a [story on knee surgery](http://bart-szyszka-2605.nyhq.nytint.com/2008/05/13/health/13joints.html).

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**Maria** on May 14, 2008

Maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, but it seems they left out anything genitalia-related (with the exception of the male prostate). Surely there are important health issues relating to cervix, uterus, ovaries, vagina, etc?

**Christine C.** on May 14, 2008

You are absolutely right. The interactive illustration is similar to sexless med school anatomical models. Maybe the lack anything genitalia-related is a reflection of newspaper cutbacks :-)

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