Saturday, 15 March 2014

The Philosophical Quest of a Cancer Cell: Redefining Existentialism by Ellora Sen

Sen's sympathetic account of the pathophysiology of carcinoma draws on key texts from t Existentialist philosophy to develop an understanding of the cancer cell's preoccupation with that which could be termed an ideological rebellion relative to genetic function characterised as within normal range. In so far as it informs the semester's work it provides a view of cancer as sentient, acting of its own volition, oppositional to the environment responsible for its existence.

The original text can be found here.

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