The "outer" body
Yesterday I have decided to try the Lisbon-Coffee-Books-Club meetup. Despite the fact that my book reading passion which was thriving while I was a teenager lost it's space to the many other passions that came later, I still find books to be one of the most valuable sources for knowledge and entertainment. I did not have a strong background on the meetup subject: "The Body". I have this interest bias which does not care much about material/physicals subjects outside of the strict domain of science, nevertheless I gave some thought to the subject so that I could participate. It was nice to find more about the common/shared views related for some characteristics of the body, like health, other more specific ones, like the influence of the gender on your body exposition/treatment accross cultures, and the more controversial ones, like the relation between body and mind. Now sharing a bit of my perspective on the subject. The word "body" when applied to a...