Items from the list of books recommended by Dr Feldenkrais for SF training, 1975
Arthur Keith (1866-1955), The Human Body (1921),
freely available at https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.110079
Scottish anatomist and anthropologist, member of the Royal Society and the Royal College of
Surgeons, among others, his work focuses on the evolution of the human subject and the idea
that the cultural dimension of a group has a major influence on its cohesion. In the 1920s, he
shared racist scientific views with other intellectuals. After the Second World War, he defended
the idea, in a chapter on “anti-Semitism and Zionism” (in A New Theory of Evolution), that Jews
had survived because of a strong sense of community around the world based on cultural
practices[1]. He was in favor of mutual aid for peace and harmony between “groups”, as long as
each remained in “his own”. He is also known for having discovered, in 1906, with Martin Flack, a
component that causes the heart to beat, the sinus or sinotrial node. As early as 1931, he
denounced medicine’s tendency to specialize in separate fields, without taking an overall view of
the subject under examination[2].
[1]NE: more than worship, because in the practice of Judaism, there are almost as many forms as there are families, or even as many experiences or conceptions of Judaism as there are individuals.
[2]Cf. his paper in the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/1931/09/13/archives/world-we-hope-for-runs-away-with-the-pen-of-the-prophet-sir-arthur.html?scp=1&st=p.
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