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Differences in the history of medical knowledge turns as much around what and how people perceive and feel (at once apprehending the body as an object, and experiencing it as embodied beings) as around what they think.
I have tried to suggest how comparative inquiry into the history of the body invites us, and indeed compels us, ceaselessly to reassess our habits of perceiving and feeling, and to imagine alternative possibilities of being - to experience the world afresh. Such is the great challenge of charting the geography of medical understanding. And also its alluring promise.