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Abstract
Western culture has a few traditions of representing the human body - among them mortuary art (gisants), the freak show, the culture of the relics, renaissance art and pre-modern and modern anatomy. A historical analysis in the spirit of Norbert Elias is offered with regard to body - person relationship in anatomy. Modern anatomy is characterized by separating the story of the person from the story of the body, a strategy that is incompatible with the bio-psycho-social paradigm of clinical medicine. The paper discusses different aspects of the above traditions and how they might bear on this conflict and on contemporary bioethics and bedside practice.Entities:
Keywords: Bioethics and Professional Ethics; Biomedical and Behavioral Research; Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge (Quill, T.E.)
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Year: 2005 PMID: 16215799 DOI: 10.1007/s11019-004-6492-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Med Health Care Philos ISSN: 1386-7423