Today Modernism’s mechanistic view of the human body still provides the basis for Western medicine. Ultimately, we are looked upon as, albeit infinitely complicated, machines: a conglomeration of different parts, the purpose of each being clearly, and often exclusively, determined. One of our ‘components’ is the heart. Its function as pump remains uncontested throughout much of the Western world. But the heart is much more... David Ulrichs, Berlin 2006
