ANP 370 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I No Lecture Exam Outline of Current Lecture II The Mindful Body A Prolegomenon to Future Work in Medical Anthropology Lecture 3 Perspectives from which body may be viewed 1 Phenomenally experienced individual body self a We assume all people share at least some intuitive sense of the embodied self as existing apart from other individual bodies b Constituent parts of the body mind matter psyche soul self etc and relations to each other are highly variable c Ways in which body is received and experienced in health and sickness are highly variable 2 As a social body a natural symbol for thinking about relationships amond nature society and culture a Body as a natural symbol with which to think about nature society and culture i The body in health offers a model of organic wholeness ii The body in sickness offers a model of social disharmony conflict and disintegration iii Society in sickness and in health offers a model for understanding the body 3 As a body politic an artifact of social and political control a Regulation surveillance and control of bodies individual and collective in reproduction sexuality in work and in leisure in sickness and other forms of deviance and human difference Three bodies represent not only three separate and overlapping units of analysis but also three different theoretical approaches and epistemologies 1 Phenomenology individual body the lived self 2 Structuralism and symbolism social body 3 Poststructuralist the body politic These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute The Individual Body Western medicine stream of social information is extraneous and irreleveant to the real biomedical diagnosis Descartes argued for the existence of two classes of substance that together constituted the human organism palpable body and intangible mind o Passions of the Soul soul located in the pineal gland Cartesian dualism artificial separation of mind and body o When organic explanation was indicated psychological and social aspects of pain tended to be all but forgotten o When severe psychopathology was diagnosed organic complications and indices tended to be ignored o Pain EITHER physical OR mental biological OR psycho social never both The illness dimension of human distress i e the social relations of sickness are being medicalized and individualized rather than politicized and collectivized o Medicalization tends to recognize tendencies to transform the social into the biological Freud s proposition of the individual at war with himself o Conflict between natural biological drives and requirements of social and moral order resulted in repressed libido producing many neuroses of modern life Representation of Holism in Non Western Epistemologies o In ancient Chinese cosmology emphasis on balance and resonance o Western cosmology emphasis on tension and contradiction