[Disease, body and corporeity: an anthropological perspective].
The aim of this article is to present a reflection on the perception of disease, taking the body and its relation to the world as a crucial point of departure. We develop some key notions of body and corporeity that throughout history involve different symbolic conceptions of the diseased body from an anthropological perspective. We highlight the polysemic nature of bodily performance that involves nature and culture as well as the mind-body dual condition. Thus, the notion of embodiment involves our body consciousness, not just the experience of what we feel through it, but the set of meanings from it that we give the world.
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Departamento de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México D.F., México. lamorealm@yahoo.com.mx
D000883:Anthropology; D015510:Clinical Medicine; D004194:Disease; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D010684:Philosophy