Sentences with phrase «on medical analogies»

Comparison with Bontecou, and the material experimentations, tactility, and bodily allusions of Eva Hesse — an artist who likely became familiar with Burri through his presence in New York — demands revision of the emphasis on medical analogies which Burri himself disliked.

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Hence the minister directs his attention as much toward the «world» as the dean of a medical school has his eye on the potentially and actually sick people of the society outside his closed community of healers, or, to use a wholly different analogy, as much as the mayor of a city keeps in view the nature and the needs of the cultural and economic society of which his city is a center.

This «reading» of the meaning of my consciousness by reference to objective accounts of that consciousness sets up a relation which Ricoeur calls «diagnostic,» a designation which rests on a reversed medical analogy.

An analogy is sometimes drawn between those who have resisted the tide of scientific evidence on the dangers of climate change and those who once questioned the link between smoking and lung cancer in the face of overwhelming medical evidence.