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   %CAUSE CARRY INFECTIOUS DISEASE SICKNESS ILLNESS 941006

     Many  medical  diseases  are  caused  by  microscopic
organisms  such as bacteria,  viruses,  prions, and moulds
which can enter  the body of a person  and cause a disease
by being present  within the body.    They use the tissues
of  the  body  for food,  and release their own  metabolic
"wastes" and "attack poisons"  into the body.   We say the
diseases are "infectious"  if one  person  who carries the
disease  can easily pass  the disease agents on to another
person who does not yet carry the disease.

     We  are  accustomed  to think of  disease  agents  as
objective  microscopic  organisms which  can  be  examined
under  a  microscope and identified by  medical experts by
virtue  of  the  characteristic  microscopic  appearances,
forms, and metabolic processes.

     Not  all  diseases,   sicknesses  and  illnesses  are
occasioned primarily by  objective  microscopic organisms.
Our  understanding  of  many  diseases,   illnesses,   and
sicknesses  are  bound  to be tragically misguided  if  we
think of diseases exclusively in terms of objective micro-
agents which can physically enter  into human  bodies  and
cause disintegration in objectively verifiable  ways which
can  be  analyzed---using  traditional  medical  tools  of
objective analysis.

     Many dis-eases originate in social, cultural, family,
organizational,  religious and work-place conditions which
threaten  people and so make people ill-at-ease,  insecure
and defensive.  Such diseases originate in unhealthy human
relationships,  not in objective micro-organisms.  To look
for the causes of such reflexive human dis-eases primarily
in micro-organisms is be tragically misguided by a medical
paradigm  of  too narrow a vision which  is  dominated  by
compulsive objectivity.

     (See the following essay.)

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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