ANTH 202 Chapter Notes -Herculine Barbin, Lateralization Of Brain Function, Dynamic Equilibrium
8 Jul 2014
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Scheper-hughes & lock - the mindful body: a prolegomenon to future work in. Assumption of body as simultaneously physical and symbolic artifact. Three bodies : individual body: phenomenological sense of lived experience of body-self. Stability of body politic rests on ability to regulate populations (the social body) and to discipline individual bodies. ----> the three bodies rep. three separate/overlapping units of analysis but also three diff. theoretical approaches and epistemologies: phenomenologies (individual body, the lived self), structuralism and symbolism (the social body), and poststructuralism (body politic) Of these three the body politic is the most dynamic in suggesting why and how certain kinds of bodies are socially produced. Singular premise guiding western science/clinical medicine is commitment to fundametal opposition between spirit and matter, mind and body, and real and unreal. Goes back to hippocrates" notions that challenge power of ancient folk healers/charlatans/magis because he cautioned medicine to treat only what was observable and palpable to sense.
