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Theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes
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organicism
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philosophy English) The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism. 2 The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs. 3 (context dated medicine English) ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Organicism \Or*gan"i*cism\, n. (Med.) The doctrine of the localization of disease, or which refers it always to a material lesion of an organ. --Dunglison.
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Organicism is the philosophical perspective which views the universe and its parts as organic wholes and - either by analogy or literally - as living organisms. It can be synonymous with holism . Organicism is an important tradition within the history of ...
Usage examples of organicism.
The organicism of romantic and modernist thought -- together with its political correlate, the disciplinary "biopolitics" described so powerfully by Foucault -- has given way to a new model of life processes.
Organicism is dead, replaced by the atomization and routinization of bodily activity, and the increasing specialization and fragmentation of the objective world of science and culture.