HLTB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Michel Foucault, Body Politic, Lightning
14 Jul 2017
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Looking to the body as a focus of understanding. People have come to realize a simplistic way of looking at the body. Social interactions influence how we look at the body. Scarring would indicate various experiences on the body. Notion of change is an ongoing process. Nanuu lopez who gets hit by lightning. She was sleeping when her house was hit with lightening. Many of the topics we are learning in the course is related to embodiment. Western biomedicine has limited view of body as a machine. Think of disease as being purely biological or purely psychological. Some clinicians are realizing that it is no longer separate. Treating the mind but also the body. (cid:1005)7(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s referred to as the e(cid:374)light(cid:373)e(cid:374)t era. People has conceptualized a perfect god and humans as imperfect. Descartes was trying to figure out or locate the grounds of knowledge. The body starts being looked at as something different from the mind.
