Monday, December 23, 2002

There is an interesting editorial in the BMJ entitled "Time to move beyond the mind-body split The "mind" is not inside but "out there" in the social world" It argues that we need external reality to determine internal reality. BMJ 2002;325:1433-1434 ( 21 December ) The authors conclude that "Conceptualising our mental life as some sort of enclosed world residing inside the skull does not do justice to the lived reality of human experience. It systematically neglects the importance of social context. Signs are encouraging that psychiatrists are becoming interested in philosophy. But the rest of medicine also needs to get beyond the legacy of Descartes. For this, medicine will require a deeper relation with philosophy."   12:26:23 AM    comment []

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