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With regard to living things, a 'body' is the integral physical material of an individual.
In the views emerging from the mind-body dichotomy, the body is considered in contrasts with mind/soul//behavior and therefore considered as little valued^[1] and trivial. Many modern philosophers of mind maintain that the mind is not something separate from the body.^[2]

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See also

See also: regarding corpses

References

Description

"Body" often is used in connection with appearance, health issues and death. In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool, both while residing in the body and afterwards.
Plants composed of more than one cell are not normally regarded as possessing a body.
The body of a dead person is also called a corpse, for humans, or cadaver.
The dead bodies of vertebrate animals and insects are sometimes called carcasses. The study of the structure of the body is called anatomy. The study of the workings of the body is physiology. The human body most of the time consists of a head, neck, torso, two arms and two legs. A body is also a held-together collection or group of physical objects or abstract ideas and, in particular, an organization of such.

See also

★ Anatomy

★ Antibody

★ Battery

★ Bodily harm

★ Body (metaphysics)

★ Disability

★ Disease

★ Emergence

★ General Fitness Training

★ Healing

★ Health

★ Human physical appearance

★ Human body

★ Microtrauma

★ Physical body

★ Trauma

See also: regarding corpses

★ Autopsy

★ Body Farm

★ Burial

★ Cremation

★ Dead bodies and health risks

★ Death

★ Embalming

★ Mummy

★ Necrophilia

★ Respect for the dead

★ The corpse problem (philosophy)

References

1. ''The mind-body problem'' by Robert M. Young
2. Problems in the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford Companion to Philosophy, , J., Kim, Oxford University Press, 1995,