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The images and ideologies of embodiment embedded in contemporary biomedical ethics stress the ways that the body is experienced as “other” and alien to ourselves. The enterprise of modern medicine, for example, presupposes in part the Cartesian understanding of the body as machine, infinitely malleable and manipulable to mechanical interventions, experimental testing, and technological repair ([13], p. 30). The technical skills of the physician as mechanic are critical to “salvaging” body “parts” or the body as a whole, even at the expense of minimal dialogue with the voice of the person.
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Campbell, C.S. (1995). Marks of the Body: Embodiment and Diminishment. In: Cahill, L.S., Farley, M.A. (eds) Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine. Theology and Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8424-1_11
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