Recovering the Body: A Philosophical Story

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index A academy, 17, 40, 55, 70, 74 acupuncture therapy and circulation of ki, 267 and homeopathy, 285 description of, 272 exclusion from Western medicine, 196 meridians, 263, 272, 273, 293, 294 adam and eve, 94–96, 131 advaita vedanta, 239–40 agilitas, 92 alexander the great, 46, 55, 72 allopathic medicine, 268, 285 allopathic versus alternative medical paradigms, 270, 276–77, 280 alternative medicine and vitalism, concept of, 267 non religious nature of, 284 perspective on health and healing, 268 . see also energy healing; homeopathy; iridology; music therapy; native american medicine; reiki; religious and/or spiritual healing; sound therapy; traditional Chinese Medicine ambrose, 97 analogy of the worm, the, 172–73, 179, 180 anatomy, history of, 117–19, 130 anima mundi, 127 animal spirits, concept of, 147–48, 154, 155, 156, 163 anything goes principle, 4, 5, 7, 11 Apology (Montaigne), 139 aquinas, thomas, 87–88, 89, 92, 96 archetypes, 127–28 aristophanes, discourse on, 33–34 aristotelian body, 53–54, 73, 87, 163 aristotelian philosophy cosmos, 49, 73 form and matter, 6, 47–48, 72, 73 form as soul, 48–51 four causes doctrine, 53, 117 perception, theory of, 51, 73–74, 149 pneuma, notion of, 75 (see also pneuma) potentiality and actuality, 48, 53, 73 teleology, 48, 52, 54, 58, 74 aristotelian soul and theory of perception, 51, 73–74, 149, 164 hierarchy of, 49–50, 54 of human being, nature of, 50 306 reCovering the Body relation to the body, 48–49, 50, 53–54, 87 aristotle, 55 compared to plato, 45, 46–47, 48, 54 De Anima, 49, 73 life and work, 45–46, 70, 72 student of plato, 46, 55 ashrams, in Canada, 258 astrology and magic during the renaissance period, 108, 110–12 reexamination of, today, 128, 293 versus mechanistic science, 113–14 athenagoras of athens, 103 augustine and the relic of Stephen at hippo, 90–91 Confessions, 85, 86, 102 greek and roman influences, 85 influenced by plotinus and the neoplatonists, 70, 85, 86–87, 102, 108 influential theologian of roman Catholicism, 79 life and work, 85–86 on the resurrection of the body, 88, 89 the body before the Fall and after resurrection, nature of, 95 union of body and soul, 92 Autobiography of a Yogi (yogananda), 237–38 ayurvedic medicine, 267, 285 B Bacon, Francis, 94, 123–25, 124, 159 Barnes, Jonathan, 50 basar, 81 Baudrillard, Jean, 215 Bauhin, Caspar, 142 Bellavite, paolo, 278, 279, 280 Berendt, Joachim-ernst, 249, 250, 253 biomedicine. see modern medicine Biondi, paolo, 48–49 Birke, linda, 8, 11 body as consumer object, 215 as life project, 159, 215, 220, 232 as philosophical subject, 1, 2 as social construction, 8, 216, 219, 232 concept of, pre-plato, 13 deconstruction of, 219–20 postmodern vision of, 222–23 reclaiming pre-modern ideas about, 4, 5, 7 self perception of, 194, 214, 231 body and flesh, 93–94 body identity position versus pattern identity position, 210, 213 body modification, 195, 214–23, 232, 233 body parts, ontological status of, 208, 227 body shaping, 159 body-machine (descartes) and the culture of dissection, 119 approaches to the history of, 2 as basis of modern medicine, 2, 5–6, 9, 133–34, 193–94, 197–200, 265, 290 concept of description of, 144–45 metabolism, 182 movement of the body, 147–49 the principle of life, 145–47, 181 vision, 149–51 critique of, 8, 152–56, 159 Bordo, Susan, 159, 200 Brahma, 249 brain death, 200–201, 223–24, 265 brain versus mind, 233 breath /wind, concept of, in ancient greece and China, 13–14, 24 . see also pneuma; qi Brown, peter, 93 Buddhism, 84, 236 Burrus, virginia, 97 Bynum, Caroline, 97, 98, 99, 101 indeX 307 C Cartesian body. see body-machine (descartes); Cartesian philosophy Cartesian legacy of dualism and mechanism, 2, 5–6, 9, 133–34, 197–200, 265 Cartesian philosophy and animal souls, 67, 145 and loss of pre-modern topics, 4 body-machine and its functions his descriptions of, 144–45 metabolism, 182 movement of the body, 147–49 perception, 149–51, 152 problems with, 152–56 the principle of life, 145–47, 181 versus Spinoza’s notion of body, 181–83 Discourse on Method, 133, 135, 136, 137–38, 139 dualism ambiguities with, 152 and modern vision of the body machine, 5–6 cogito ergo sum, 138–40 humans versus animals, 145, 150–51 knowledge as activity of the mind, 136...