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RE: virus: This Isn't My Body
« on: 2005-11-09 18:14:13 » |
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[Blunderov] http://www.philosophersnet.com/magazine/article.php?id=969
By Ophelia Benson. There is a disorder known as "Body Identity Integrity
Disorder (BIID) or body dysmorphia, as "a mismatch between their body and
their body as they experience it - what we might call their phenomenal (or
subjective) body." The sufferers of this condition desire to have perfectly
healthy limbs amputated. Should this be allowed? Fascinating.
This too, I found arresting
"Hacking uses the term 'semantic contagion' to describe the way in which
publicly identifying and describing a condition creates the means by which
that condition spreads. ... An act has been redescribed to make it thinkable
in a way it was not thinkable before."
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