Well, not so much out of fashion – but advertisers, retailers and plastic surgeons realised there wasn't anything more they could do with these bodily entities other than boost them, reduce them or remove them.
"Since indeed the actions of beasts … can be explained simply by the disposition of their spirits and other bodily parts, and since entities should not be multiplied without necessity, we have no reason to attribute any intellect to beasts" (Regius 1646, 241 42).
Also, because it targets specific symptoms, this approach treats the disease condition as an isolated entity, independent of other bodily functions.
Ever since Bichat distinguished the 'organic' and 'animal' lives [ 7], the vertebrate body has been construed as a dual entity, one part somatic (engaged with the outside world), the other visceral (concerned with bodily homeostasis).
On the other hand, "disability" has been seen as an unrelated entity, either as a medical issue of bodily impairments such as blindness and deafness or as an imposed restriction on the individual that hinders him/her from taking part in daily life activities.
Consequently our conceptions of them can be precise and certain, for as conceptual entities they escape the sorts of change and bodily limits characteristic of the physical world.
But new research is fundamentally altering that view: fat cells, over 30 billion of them, are extraordinarily dynamic, complex and influential entities that affect a staggering array of crucial bodily functions.
Bikinis and bodily functions.
Reincarnation, also called transmigration or metempsychosis, in religion and philosophy, rebirth of the aspect of an individual that persists after bodily death whether it be consciousness, mind, the soul, or some other entity in one or more successive existences.
Just associating bodily there.
Ditto other bodily functions.
