Body-as-nature - Body-as-self

To biomedicine, the body is an entity possible to observe and understand through scientific theory and technology. To the individual human being, the body is a basis of existence. The correspondence between these two perspectives is only very conditional, a situation often overlooked within biomedically oriented clinical practice. Also, the scientific mapping of the body does in fact challenge the traditional conceptions of a straight-forward bodily logic. Understanding the bodily, existential perspective is therefore often necessary to obtain validity of the clinical dialogue.