[[Books Index]] #book Reading on [[02-01-2025]] - Mechanistic View of life. - Rene Descartes - Cartesian view - split the human experience into "mind and body" - Reductionist view - everything can be reduced, and view from a mechanical perspective - Discovery in Chemistry, - oxygen. Cells theory - But cells are living systems -- cannot be understood in a reductionist framework - Newton thought that "everything has been designed completely", "as in", but Darwin shows that everything is "becoming", evolving instead. - Reductionist -- Reduced until to the level of gene --- that leading to Genetic determinism -- forced mechanistic medicine. - Biomedical model - This limit itself to the study of "biological medicine", cellular biological -process in injury - but what about non-biological circumstances influence? - Becareful, are we focusing too much on (a) diseases processes -- the biological, physiological mechanism thought which disease manifest and progresses (b) or Disease origin - the root causes, or the condition that give rise to the disease in the first place. - We focus on too much (reactive), not preventive. - Modern medicine going "smaller", losing sight of human being. - However in 1970s, 80s -- swing back to "holistic medicine" ## Birth of Social Science John Locke - strongly influenced by Descartes and Newton. Sought to understand the "human nature" - believe that all man created equal, and govern by self-interests.