Biomedical subjects
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Risk taking behaviors show attempts to escape from suffering, to struggle to live. They are different for boys and girls. Girls take suffering upon themselves and make of their bodies the very scene of that suffering, whereas boys throw themselves against the world in provocative, transgressive behaviours. Besides, when the will of the girl is to be unique, the will of the boy is to be the best.
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Man is not only a body. It is relevant to reiterate that task of medicine is to relieve man's suffering and not to repair a mechanism. If medicine is a science concerning human body, it is not a human science. Anthropology of the body studies perceptions, representations and values concerning the body in human societies. Its point of view is cultural, not biologic. To understand the cultural representations of the body allows us to understand and better cure man. Yet, medical and anthropological knowledge are bound together.