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Professor Spicker’s “The Lived-Body As Catalytic Agent” is a good example of a reaction at the interface of medicine and philosophy. Spicker made the lived-body [le corps propre] thematic as the meeting point of the disciplines of philosophers and physicians. The category of laterality is suggested as a means to comprehend the lived-body and to comprehend certain infirmities. We will articulate our discussion in four points.
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© 1975 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Schuwer, A. (1975). Comments on “The Lived-Body as Catalytic Agent”. In: Engelhardt, H.T., Spicker, S.F. (eds) Evaluation and Explanation in the Biomedical Sciences. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1769-5_14
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