vitalist

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• All the great Eastern systems of traditional medicine are based on highly evolved vitalist philosophies that interweave mind, body, and world.

  Academic text (2001)

• So do you think the vitalists have a point that they're more eager and able to notice the magic of life?

• Perhaps the reason is that people in our culture and others speak of health and illness in a vitalist way; we talk about mind and body with an intuitive sense of their inseparability; we experience how our predicament and our health are entangled.

  Academic text (2001)

• Both biomedical and vitalist accounts can be valid and valuable; however, the vitalist's story is about the body-mind experienced from the inside, and biomedicine's is about the body as an object.

  Academic text (2001)

• It seems that the gulf between mainstream medicine and the vitalist therapies—like the gap between the participatory worldview and science itself—is narrowing.

  Academic text (2001)

• Many vitalists argue that health is influenced not just by physical factors, but also by one's emotional and mental state.

• In discussions about the philosophy of biology, a vitalist might emphasize the importance of a life force in understanding living organisms.

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