https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.489
In the medical and cultural discourse an important issue is the process of categorization of occurrence that allows its segregation according to the order of normality and deviation. That order has not only common objective importance, but also a universal sense, and so cognitive patterns that refer to the biological understanding of the body are formed. In the case of the medical context it is about notional sequences: normal - norm - normal state - health and abnormal - anomaly - pathological state - disease. When referring to the cultural context it is important to denote notional continua, like biological attractiveness - biotype - efficiency - beauty and monster - oddity - deformity - ugliness. What seems to be important is the semantic correlation or even the adequacy between the patterns of the interpretation of the body within the order of normality and deviation, that function within two different fields of human’s activity, which are medicine and culture.
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