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The Great Health: an introduction to the Body without Organs medicine

Availing oneself of Spinoza's Ethics as a starting point and especially of the interpretation of his philosophy according to Deleuze & Guattari, we propose the frame of reference of Grand Health and outline what medicine based on this idea might consist of. Another concept proposed is that of the Body With No Organs, conceived to deal with the plane on which Grand Health is experienced: the plane of intensities experienced as an ongoing fluctuation of powers, appetites and desires. This Deleuzian interpretation of Spinoza allows us to glimpse the basis for a hypothetical Spinozistic medicine, with its Physiology of the Body With No Organs, its "pathology", understood herein as Affectology, its "science of signals and symptoms" or Semiotics and what might be its "therapeutics", governed by the ideal of Grand Health.

Health; Philosophy; Ethics


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