Raymond Tallis it is connected with the fact that human are embodied subjects with a fully
developed sense of their own existence rather than merely being conscious organisms …

Meditationes de prima philosophia (Descartes, 1641) he described the human organism'as
some kind of machine which is made up of bones, nerves, muscles, veins and skin'. It …

While biomedicine has successfully created and hoarded a body of technical knowledge to
call its own, its knowledge and practices draw upon a background of tacit understandings …

The scientific revolution, which had its fundamental beginnings in the 16th century,
generated a singularly productive method of investigating the natural world. The method …

A compelling paradox confronts present-day medicine. Major advances in medical
technology are proclaimed almost daily. Built on this flourishing technology are equally …

In his 1959 Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge, CP Snow 1 called attention to the
growing schism between science and the arts. As a physicist and novelist, Snow had a foot …

'Practices' and 'praxeological'approaches have acquired a prominent place in recent
historical writing and, for that matter, in the humanities and the social sciences in general. 1 …

In the past, there were such things as doctor-priests, extraordinary people who established
special relationships with those who were ill. They were known as shamans. Shamans …

One may regard the medical school as a professional academy for the cultivation of
concerned, intelligent, responsible dispensers of the complicated art of healing. It draws on …

The author considers how an emphasis on the achievements of biomedical science has
contributed to a loss of human understanding and increased cynicism and dissatisfaction in …