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Section A

1. Introduce the subject by giving a brief account of the insight into the mind-body relationship outlined in the texts.
The days are passed! The time when surgery and drugs was for those who were ill has passed. Surgery, medicine and medical technology are no longer simply for those who are in want. The man has always pursued perfection, to get the perfect life. In the article “A New Fertility Factor”, a new fertility institution focuses on giving women back their life, the perfect life, by different treatments – it called the Mind-body fertility program. The article does have a good relationship to the mind-body which is expressed in their narrative of a 33-year old woman, Melissa. She and her husband have problems with fertility and she gets injected fertility medication . The article says that infertility is stressful and exactly distress can cause infertility even though it is not proved. By getting medical help it can discourage anxiety and depression. On the other hand we have an article by Miller, “We all need a dose of the doctor”, which doesn’t operate with arguments to use medication. A “Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint recognized a half century ago, mystifying symptoms are not necessarily untreatable” . The best medication is the doctor – the doctor shall treat the patients as friends and they will be motivated to get healthy again without any drugs. The article “How to think about the mind” does discuss that the brain is not some pocket which is “managing information at the behest of a ghostly will” and neither is it some “independent-part” – it as a part of the body. The neuroscience has proved whatever happens to over body it influences on our brain or as said it “will literally change” our mind. The article “The body” is about an ageing playwright (dramatist) who had transplanted his mind into a younger body and his is quite found with mind-body relationship. It gives him a feeling of pleasure, now he has the possibility of doing what he couldn’t while he was a young boy.
2. Comment on the language and the structure of one of the texts.
The article “A new fertility factor” by Domar has used a language on a low to middle plan to make us understanding their message. Though they use express from the biology (injected fertility) they do not explain it further. The article does have some allegation about fertility without any substantiation with words from scientist for example. And concerning the structure of the text it is as following:
We are first introduced to the main problem then the solution: Melissa can’t get pregnant but by giving up the alcohol and caffeine and later by getting injected with the fertility medication, she gets pregnant. Then we are getting introduced to how it is easy to get pregnant and then about fertility and the consequences. It ends up with a proclamation of their program – that focuses on getting their life back!
3. Discuss some social and/or religious consequence of the development the modern mind-body relationship.
Seen from a religious perspective the consequence of the development the modern mind-body relationship are enormous: should human create life by medication and transplant human brain? It must be against God’s will to take nature into our own hands. Looking at it through conservative religious eyes human are created by a man and a woman and not by any biological medication. NO! It is also wrong to transplant human brain because it will be the same as cannibalism; you are absorbing a part of another human into your body. We are not aloud to play God! The problem is maybe not giving birth by injected fertility, but giving birth to babies by injected fertility and genetic manipulation. I have no doubt that in the future people are going to want to use the technology (genetic manipulation) for uses that goes beyond medicine, for uses that are cosmetic, for things like eye color and height. I have no questions on mind my mind that this technology is going to be used to provide people with these kinds of genetic choices in their children.

I guess that mind-body relationship is not preferred by religious people because we may remember that the soul is in the body and not in the brain.
Concerning the social consequence of the development the modern mind-body relationship: how many people in society will be able to afford transplanting brains or afford getting injected fertility medication and which consequence will appear by the composition of society in the future? I believe that inequality is the keyword.