organicismn.

1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Organicism, the doctrine of the localization of disease. A modern term, but not much used.

1893 R. Virchow in Standard 17 Mar. In the second period..they endeavoured to find in a certain region the actual organ which might be considered as the seat of disease. On this foundation arose the Parisian school of organicism, which, until late in this century, held a dominant position in pathology.

1984 C. Wilson Lord of Underworld ii. 34 An age that regarded mental illness as physical in origin—a view known as organicism.

1988 Bull. Hist. Med. 62 527 The exponents of organicism were dedicated anatomo-pathologists and clinicians.

1945 S. C. Pepper Basis of Crit. in Arts iv. 74 Organicism, traditionally known as objective idealism, is the world hypothesis that stresses the internal relatedness or coherence of things.

1972 W. K. Wimsatt in G. S. Rousseau Organic Form 71 If we had never heard of organic form..we might well be dedicating this very volume to a struggle to invent and proclaim some doctrine of Romantic organicism.

1995 S. Schama Landscape & Memory iv. 229 The attempt to inscribe organicism into the features of the building itself, to dissolve the boundaries between nature and architecture, was..truly revolutionary.