HLTB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sport Utility Vehicle, Banana Leaf, Scientific Method
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Social interactions are written on the body. Written on the body is scarring, tattoos. She wasn"t actually herself it by lightening. She told john she had been hit by lightening, she was in her house when lightening hit her spirit animal. This fundamentally contrasts with the western autonomy of the self. Cartesian view has led doctors to think of disease as being purely biological or purely psychological. In recent years in mental health care, cancer care, other kinds of care there is more linkage towards peoples emotional state and other factors. Rene descartes was from the age od reason, the enlightenment era. He was trying to figure out the grounds for knowledge. The body or the senses muddled reason. It"s the senses/body that prevents us from reaching this knowing state, where we can know things perfectly. Body starts to be viewed as separate from the mind.
