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The Body in Medical Thought and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
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The Body in Medical Thought and Practice (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992)
Series: Philosophy and Medicine, 43
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In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a
central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the
human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially,
culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body
and determine norms of health and behavior? The answers arrived at
by phenomenologists, social theorists, and feminists have radically
challenged our cenventional notions of the body dating back to 17th
century Cartesian thought. This is the first volume to
systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning
the body and draw out its crucial implications for medicine. Its
authors suggest that many of the problems often found in modern
medicine -- dehumanized treatment, overspecialization, neglect of
the mind's healing resources -- are directly traceable to
medicine's outmoded concepts of the body. New and exciting
alternatives are proposed by some of the foremost physicians and
philosophers working in the medical humanities today.
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