Autonomy In The Brain Analysis

In every city, state, community, or in one’s self, there is some type of autonomy occurring. So what is autonomy? Autonomy originated from Ancient Greece, that characterized city states as self-governed and is known as self- governed, self-determination, self-rule, or self-law (Piper). Later, autonomy come to be “understood as a property of persons” (Piper). In the episode “Both sides now” of House, autonomy is questioned between both House and his split brain patient in various ways, such as their views about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, their unspoken self-governed thoughts or actions of their right hemispheres, and their realization of what their right hemisphere was trying to tell them. Both House and his split brain patient, have different views about the right hemisphere of the brain. When the split brain patients file was being reviewed by House and his team, House stated that the left brain had ‘language, arithmetic, and
rationality” and that the right brain is “a mute loser.” He also stated that “most people that have this operation don’t even notice they are missing anything.” A colleague of his team defended that the right hemisphere or brain is “astatically oriented” and he couldn’t have been a surgeon without it. As for Houses split brain patient, his opinion on the matter is different. For instance, when he explained going grocery shopping to two of the team members, he described that everything seemed normal but when he got to the check out, he would find extra items that he hated and didn’t put in the cart. He states “my left hand hates me.” It’s as if there were two people in the same body. In this episode we learn that the left hemisphere controls the decision making and the language and the right hemisphere being nonverbal, but communicates through actions. The unspoken or actions of both House and the young split brain patient are a little different as well because house doesn’t a have split brain.
In the episode, Cuddy sends a patient to his office to force him to do clinic duty. The patient Mr. Schwartz, complains of a squalling noise he makes, and how its ruining his marriage. Houses focus bring on making Cuddy mad he disregards the man’s autonomy, and sends him to give Cuddy a stool sample. When he and the team determine that the split brain patient doesn’t have a fungus, he got set on pancreatic cancer being so sure that he had pancreatic cancer. The split brain patients right brain seemed to hate him and do thing he would never do. In the episode his girlfriend brought in some of his personal things trying to please his right brain. She brought a cactus, deodorant spray, magazines, shaving stuff, and tooth paste. As she was saying she has to get to work, the left hand threw the can of deodorant, then when she was leaning in to kiss him bye it slapped her in the
face. After House avoiding and disregarding his patient Mr. Schwartz, the elderly man was at his office waiting to tell him he squawked again holding his stomach. House diagnosed him with acid reflux and wrote him a prescription. After giving him the prescription House noticed the old man moving his belt, questioning why he moved his belt, Mr. Schwartz replied “its sore, at 86 everything’s sore.” House pressed on his stomach and realized he has pancreatic cancer, and that his right hemisphere was trying to tell him what was wrong with his elderly patient. As for the Split brain patient, the girlfriend had a thought about his hand throwing the can of deodorant, explaining that the hand seemed angry at it, and that it has always had a playfulness manner about it. She questioned if it was the deodorant that his right brain was trying to tell them was causing his illness. After giving her thoughts the hand gently touched her face and seemed pleased. Both House and the Split brain patient’s right hemispheres where trying to self-govern or self-rule to communicated with them. In conclusion, autonomy is known as self-governing, self-determination, self-rule, or self-law (Piper). In the episode “Both sides now” of House, autonomy is questioned between both House and his split brain patient in various ways, such as their views about the right and left hemispheres of the brain, their unspoken self-governed thoughts or actions of their right hemispheres, and their realization of what their right hemisphere was trying to tell them. The autonomy of the two characters House and the split brain patient was that both their right hemispheres were trying to communicate the answers they were looking for.