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The Body in Illness and Health
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This chapter is on the Caraka Saṃhitā (1st–2nd century CE), focussing on The Ordinary Person, within the Section on Body. Here, the text steps back from actual medical issues to explore exactly who the human being is that is the subject of treatment. The text’s explicit objective is the healthy and long life, and while it strives to articulate the nature of illness and health, it perforce expresses what it is to be a (healthy or ill) person. Within that expression is contained a view of the human being as a bodily being. Such a bodily being is constituted ecologically, by a network of reflexive phenomenological states that occur across (i) a compositional material locus (the narrowly construed ‘body’), (ii) the clinical interaction of physician and patient (which are lines of intersubjective affect), and (iii) a normative social life of conduct (that influence the very constitution of the whole human).
Title: The Body in Illness and Health
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This chapter is on the Caraka Saṃhitā (1st–2nd century CE), focussing on The Ordinary Person, within the Section on Body.
Here, the text steps back from actual medical issues to explore exactly who the human being is that is the subject of treatment.
The text’s explicit objective is the healthy and long life, and while it strives to articulate the nature of illness and health, it perforce expresses what it is to be a (healthy or ill) person.
Within that expression is contained a view of the human being as a bodily being.
Such a bodily being is constituted ecologically, by a network of reflexive phenomenological states that occur across (i) a compositional material locus (the narrowly construed ‘body’), (ii) the clinical interaction of physician and patient (which are lines of intersubjective affect), and (iii) a normative social life of conduct (that influence the very constitution of the whole human).
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