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(1992) The body in medical thought and practice, Dordrecht, Springer.
The chest, the house of the heart, is an important center of a person's being. I may locate my consciousness in my head, but my self, my existence as a solid person in the world, starts from my chest, from which I feel myself rise and radiate ([28] pp. 22–27; [13], Ch. 27). At least in Euro-American culture, it is to my chest, not my face, that I point when I signify myself. In Hindu philosophy of the body the chest is not the only center, but it has the integrative power among them ([11], pp. 132–135).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-7924-7_13
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Young, I.M. (1992)., Breasted experience: the look and the feeling, in D. Leder (ed.), The body in medical thought and practice, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 215-230.
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