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I agree with Sophie that the “healthy vs. ill” language is not just an issue of semantics.  The way we use language to frame ideas has huge implications for we feel about them.  For example, the whole pro-life vs. anti-choice debate.  

I also agree that we cannot draw a distinction between mind and body.  In one of my psychology courses, we spent time talking about in other parts of the world where psychological differences are not talked about or considered serious (I wish I could remember where specifically we were speaking about) psychosomatic illnesses are a lot more common.