Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wisdom of the Body

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The result of the debate was Redirect to Homeostasis. -- Phroziac (talk) 01:13, September 7, 2005 (UTC)

Wisdom of the Body
Close to being. Concept is described as a theory, but no details of what that theory is are given. Esoteric discussion of chaos theory and strange attractors without describing relevance to subject matter. Final sentence "This wisdom ought to be taken for granted in the same way is gravity is" offers no supporting evidence as why this theory should be taken for granted. BillC 00:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Provisional delete . I get a lot of Googles for "Wisdom of the Body", but as it stands this article is OR of the first degree, it's only 'reference' is a...interesting...website. But the Googles indicate some possible scientific interest in the phrase. Nevertheless, here would not seem the place to start so we should remove the OR and start again. -Splash 00:22, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Homeostasis per Dpbsmith; I think redirect to the topic rather than the author. -Splash 18:37, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * See my comment below. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Full delete Total Nonsence and OR 70.51.172.85 01:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless the article is completely rewritten. - ulayiti (talk)   (my RfA)  02:51, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. Other references to the phrase as such do not seem to correlate to this OR theory. MCB 07:07, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - it does sound like original research UniReb 10:48, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, OR. See also Articles for deletion/Streaming organism. the wub  "?/!"  13:29, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Chunitaku 14:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete OR Amren (talk) 14:26, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Homeostasis and add a brief note somewhere giving the title of Cannon's book. Cannon's book is famous, as is Walter Cannon, and the phrase "wisdom of the body" is frequently mentioned in conjunction with homeostasis. The present contents of the article is more or less nonsense and original research. I don't think there's anything that can needs to be said under the heading "Wisdom of the body" that would be separate from Homeostasis. The book itself could conceivably be worthy of an entire article but if anyone wants to write about the book the should start by writing a section in Walter Cannon and breaking it out if and when it grows big enough. Dpbsmith (talk) 17:31, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Walter Cannon might be a better target than Homeostasis then, as there is already a mention of the book in the article on Cannon. (Good comments, Dpbsmith). --BillC 17:59, 2 September 2005 (UTC)


 * Comment Wisdom of the Body is a broadened version of the metaphor conceived by Starling and adopted by Cannon. It provides a common framework for seemingly unrelated concepts e. g., equilibrium, steady state, and strange attractor, and is applied to interpret health and disease in a new way. In other words health and disease can be expressed by these disciplines in different ways.
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