Concept information
Preferred term
vitalism
Definition
- The claim that life cannot be reduced to purely material elements. In the history of medicine, vitalism was overtaken by mechanistic explanations of life (Blackwell). [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Vitalism]
Broader concept
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/vitalism
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