Health and Pathology

Abstract

This paper shows some issues around “health and pathology”/“normal and abnormal” in the modern medicine from various angles, as follows: I) the bacteriology of the 19th century, the specific etiology and natural healing power; II) three ways of the definition of health: that health means absence of disease, everyday life with no difficulties and the balance both inside and outside of the body; III) the psychosomatic concept: there are two kinds of patients, one is optimistic, the other is pessimistic. the former could heal faster than the latter; IV) a cut-off point on a bell-curve that divides the population into normal and anormal parts; V) ‘mi-byo’ or a risk and ‘preemptive medicine’ that might attack the ‘mi-byo’ and prevent diseases; and VI) that correlation does not mean the causation: the cyborgization and enhancement; and the private or public language discussing a possibility of the person with dementia living in his/her private and inner world.