“Freshmen Specimen”
Patricia Williams, article in The Nation, September 27th, 2010.
This article questions the ethics of DNA sampling.
The problem with this is that, again, the law is not settled about whether our genetic makeup is more the property of the excavating mind of the scientist or the individual property of a particularly identified body.
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The field of human-animal experiments is dubbed “chimera” research, named for the she-monster in Greek mythology that has a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a serpent’s tail… Maybe the problem is not so much chimeras in science as chimeras in politics.
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“Slouching Toward Washington”
Maureen Dowd, The New York Times, Sept 25, 2010
We know that it is now possible to successfully transplant a hand and that the brain can reconstitute its bodily schema to include foreign members.
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“What Should We Do with Our Brain?” Catherine Malabou, Fordham University Press, New York, 2008
Conversely, it happens that movement, passing from soul to body and from body to soul, propagates itself indefinetely in a locus of anxiety certainly closer to that space where Malebranche placed souls than to that in which Descartes situated bodies.
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“Madness & Civilization”
Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 90.
Indeed, we must no longer try to situate passion in a casual succession, or halfway between the corporeal and the spiritual; passion indicates, at a new, deeper level, that the soul and the body are in perpetual metaphorcal relation… soul and body are always each other’s immediate expression.
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“Madness & Civilization”
Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 88.
One more step, and the entire system becomes a unity in which body and soul communicate immediately in the symbolic values of common qualities.
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“Madness & Civilization”
Michel Foucault, Random House, 1965 page 87.
…”This is what happens in the medicine of solids and fluids, which dominates eighteenth-century practice. Tension and release, hardness and softness, rigidity and relaxation, congestion and dryness– These qualitative states characterize the soul as much as the body…”