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]
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,