Movement of the arm, and movements of the joints that allow the arm to move. If I think this way, as an osteopath, I fall into the trap of the mechanical world. I talk about tensegrity and how muscles pull on bones. Lifting the arm becomes a sum of micro-movements. I break the macro-movement into…

“There is probably no other branch of human knowledge about which the popular conception is so vague as the science of medicine. In theory people no longer look upon the physician as a man endowed with supernatural insight and power, but in fact they still regard him in that light. They call him to attend…

Recently, I came across a book called A Feeling for the Organism, by Evelyn Fox Keller. The book is about the life and work of Barbara McClintock, an American scientist, and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. What I found of utter interest is not her discoveries (I am…

Reading a text without being aware of our philosophical background can lead to misunderstanding what the author is talking about. In order to explain this, and maybe get people to think about the way they think, I will give a few ideas about what might happen when we misread Still. The world as an inert…

Imagine you have to clean your apartment. I’ll tell you what, since I started this article with the word “Imagine”, then let’s imagine you live in a freaking big mansion. Okay, now I can hear people are starting to think that if they live in a mansion, they probably have enough money to pay for…