Synopsis:
- Theory of disease
- The organism cannot be divided into "organs": it is the whole that reacts to the environment
- "Disease" is a manifestation of a change of state between the organism and its environment
- Healing does not come through "repair" but through adaptation of the whole system
- The organism cannot simply return to the state preceding the event that changed it, but has to adapt to the conditions that caused the new state
- A local sympton is not meaningful to understand a "disease", and the organism's behavior during a disease cannot be explained as a response to that specific symptom
- A sick person's body undergoes mass-scale adjustments
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