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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

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Nationalism and the Body Politic

Nationalism and the Body Politic

This volume aims to question the recent revival of neo-nationalist policies in the light of what unconscious fantasies are involved in these developments. It examines both recent movements of right-wing extremism and the way in which rearticulated neo-ethnic ideas have been adopted by mainstream politicians and in mainstream public discourse. Politicians from other than the right-wing populist parties have tended to resist specific ways of talking that are considered too extremist rather than their underlying frame of interpretation. Governments across Europe have adopted anti-immigrant and anti-Roma policies. Xenophobia and hostility towards 'others' is on the rise along with appeals to Tradition and Security. 'Cultures of fear' are linked with fantasies of fusion or 'imagined sameness'. Alongside the image of the nation as a mother and/or father Reich (1933) called attention to the fantasy of the nation as a body echoed in Money-Kyrle's (1939) characterization of 'group hypochondria' in connection with the burning of witches and heretics. | Nationalism and the Body Politic

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Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

Including both traditional and underrepresented accounts and geographies of soul body gender and sexuality in late antique history philosophy and theology this volume offers substantial re-readings of these and related concepts through theories of dis/embodiment. Bringing together gender studies late antique philosophy patristics history of asceticism and history of Indian philosophy this interdisciplinary volume examines the notions of dis/embodiment and im/materiality in late antique and early Christian culture and thought. The book’s geographical scope extends beyond the ancient Mediterranean providing comparative perspectives from Late Antiquity in the Near East and South Asia. It offers critical interpretations of late antique scholarly objects of inquiry exploring close readings of soul body gender and sexuality in their historical context. These fascinating studies engage scholars from different fields and research traditions with one another and reveal both change and continuity in the perception and social role of gender sexuality body and soul in this period. Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Classics Gender and Sexuality Studies as well as those working on late antique and early Christian history philosophy and theology. | Soul Body and Gender in Late Antiquity Essays on Embodiment and Disembodiment

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Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) a body description from head to foot autobiographical writings and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo. Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body this book intertwines consistent contextualisation and historicisation of self-interpretation and biography. This is done in three steps: first the content and function of these self-narratives are analysed with reference to current research on early modern self-narratives. In a second step the life and family history of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp are examined from a microhistorical perspective and placed within the context of the early modern history of Tyrol’s nobility. A third step then goes into detail on individual contexts and discourses that refine one’s comprehension of these self-narratives: noble masculinity; family house and line; theories of procreation and education; body experience and body images. It combines textual analysis historical anthropology with a strong gender-historical perspective microhistory and the history of the body as a history of experience and discourse. With this approach the study makes an innovative contribution to early modern studies on self-narratives social history of early modern nobility and the history of the body as the history of experience and discourse. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in intellectual social and cultural history. | Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

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Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

This book brings together the thinking of an international group of clinicians researchers and professionals from different disciplines and is based primarily on a selection of papers presented at a conference on the same topic held at the Tavistock Centre London in November 1996 but with additional original contributions. It presents a dia | Stranger in My Own Body Atypical Gender Identity Development and Mental Health

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The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. In the first half of the book the author clarifies what is at issue in the choice between theories that posit nonphysical properties only and those that posit nonphysical substances. The crucial question he argues is whether one posits nonphysical things that satisfy an Aristotelian-Cartesian independence definition of substance: nonphysical things that could exist in the absence of anything else. In the second half the author argues that standard and Russellian monist forms of property dualism are far less plausible than we usually suppose. Most significantly the presuppositions of one of the leading arguments for property dualism the conceivability argument lead by parity of reasoning to the view that conscious subjects are nonphysical substances. He concludes that if you posit nonphysical properties in response to the mind-body problem then you should be prepared to posit nonphysical substances as well. Mainstream philosophy of mind must take nonphysical substances far more seriously than it has done for the best part of a century. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind metaphysics and the history of philosophy. | The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

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The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

This book is a guide for the constantly growing community of the users of medical thermal imaging. It describes where and how an infrared equipment can be used in a strictly standardised way and how one can ultimately comprehensively report the findings. Due to their insight into the complex mechanisms behind the distribution of surface temperature future users of medical thermal imaging should be able to provide careful and cautious interpretations of infrared thermograms thus avoiding the pitfalls of the past. The authors are well-known pioneers of the technique of infrared imaging in medicine who have combined strict standard-based evaluation of medical thermal images with their expertise in clinical medicine and related fields of health management. | The Thermal Human Body A Practical Guide to Thermal Imaging

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The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

In this book Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists archival research and personal collections including films videotapes and sound recordings. At once aesthetic cultural and political this renewed perspective asks new questions and rewrites past assumptions about the artists’ work. The legendary members of the East Coast Pictures Generation emerged at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo in the mid-1970s. These young people had started Hallwalls an artist-run organization that invited artists from a variety of mediums to show their work. It also featured productions by the founding members themselves: Robert Longo Charles Clough Cindy Sherman Nancy Dwyer and Michael Zwack. The works discussed in the volume include performance video films painting music and literature and have been chosen because of the way they foreground states of the body in relationship to conditions of their medium. As a distinguishing feature of Hallwalls artists’ work the practice uses these traces to make metaphors on the process of mechanical reproduction itself. The Hallwalls artists’ work also gives testament to Buffalo and to New York City the cities that formed their historical contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history performance studies film studies and gender studies. | The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls Traces of the Body Gender and History

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Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

Bodies of Information initiates the Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics series by encompassing interdisciplinary Bioethical discussions on a wide range of descriptions of bodies in relation to their contexts from varying perspectives: including literary analysis sociology criminology anthropology osteology and cultural studies to read a variety of types of artefacts from the Romano-British period to Hip Hop. Van Rensselaer Potter coined the phrase Global Bioethics to define human relationships with their contexts. This and subsequent volumes return to Potter’s founding vision from historical perspectives and asks how did we get here from then? | Bodies of Information Reading the VariAble Body from Roman Britain to Hip Hop

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The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical through jazz and rock to traditional folk. Hearing damage is of serious concern in most forms of music-making but the most stressful situations and the most physical damage is recorded in the practice of classical music. The long hours of practice at the beginning of a musician's career are the main source of problems that sometimes only reveal themselves in later life. This book is aimed equally at student musicians practising musicians and instrumental and vocal teachers and it aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform and also how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance. The principal author Dr Jaume Rosset i Llobet is a medical expert and an internationally acclaimed researcher on the subject. He is the Director of a Centre for the Physiology of The Arts in Terrassa Catalonia one of the few clinics in the world to which musicians dancers and performing artists can go for assessment and treatment. The book provides examples and references to the health of musicians covering a wide range of musical genres based on current research practice and treatment. As well as physiological exposition copiously illustrated with medical and humorous diagrams the book covers ergonomics risk factors posture breathing matters of diet and accommodation of professional needs in daily life. | The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

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Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

Through close examination of references to gender identity female sexuality and corporeality this book is the first of its kind to shed light on the complexities of translating the recent transgressive turn in contemporary women’s writing in French. Via four case studies namely the translations into English of Nelly Arcan’s Putain (2001) Catherine Millet’s La Vie sexuelle de Catherine M. (2001) Nancy Huston’s Infrarouge (2010) and Nina Bouraoui’s Garçon manqué (2000) this book explores how transgressive topoi such as prostitution anorexia matrophobia rape female desire and transgenderism are translated. The book considers how (auto)fictional female selves portrayed are dis/placed by translation at both a textual and paratextual level. Combining feminist phenomenological perspectives on female lived experience with feminist translation theory this interdisciplinary study offers an insight into how the experiential is brought into language how it journeys via language into new cultural contexts via translation and creates a dialogical space in which the subjectivities of those involved (author narrator protagonist translator) become open to the porosity of encounters with alterity. The volume will appeal to scholars in translation studies French Studies and gender and sexuality studies particularly those interested in feminist translation and literary translation. | Translating Transgressive Texts Gender Sexuality and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Writing in French

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Volatile Bodies

Volatile Bodies

Volatile Bodies is based on a risky wager: that all the effects of subjectivity psychological depth and inferiority can be refigured in terms of bodies and surfaces. It uses transforms and subverts the work of a number of distinguished male theorists of the body (Freud Lacan Merleau-Ponty Schilder Nietzsche Foucault Lingis and Deleuze) who while freeing the body from its subordination to the mind are nonetheless unable to accomodate the specificities of women's bodies. This book explores various dissonances in thinking the relation between mind and body. It investigates issues that resist reduction to these binary terms - psychosis hypochondria neurological disturbances perversions and sexual deviation - and most particularly the enigmatic status of body fluids and the female body.

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Traveling Bodies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice

Traveling Bodies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice

Traveling Bodies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice explores the central role the body has in and for traveling and thus complements and expands upon existing research in travel studies with new perspectives on and insights in the entanglement of bodies and traveling. The case studies assembled in this volume discuss a variety of traveling practices experiences and media with chapters featuring Asian American and European historical and contemporary perspectives. Truly interdisciplinary in its approach the volume identifies and examines diverse literary historical and cultural texts contexts and modes in which traveling and the body intersect including ‘classic’ travelogues (new) media (e. g. film digital travel apps) surf culture and travel-inspired tattoos. The contributions offer various avenues for further research not only for scholars working with body theory and travel (writing) but also for anyone interested in the intersections of literature culture media and embodied practices of traveling. | Traveling Bodies Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Traveling as an Embodied Practice

GBP 145.00
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Maximum Government Maximum Governance Reframing India’s Macroeconomic Discourse

Maximum Government Maximum Governance Reframing India’s Macroeconomic Discourse

Austerity fiscal consolidation fiscal discipline and fiscal deficit targets have become the buzzwords of contemporary macroeconomic policy. By tracing the history of macroeconomic schools of thought Maximum Government Maximum Governance explores the origins essence shortcomings and deception of mainstream neoliberal macroeconomics. Arguing that economies are financially constrained neoliberal macro­economics dislodged full employment as the target of policy replacing it with a low and stable inflation target. Monetary policy under the control of an independent central bank became the primary instrument to assist free and globalized markets to propel economies towards full employment. How­ever the global financial crisis of 2008 and rising inequalities of income and wealth in the last decade within and across economies has led to rise of nationalist-populist leaders in many parts of the world. Although neoliberal economics has been put under the scanner by these leaders their actions seem reactionary and without a coherent understanding of alternative schools of economic thought. An alternative based on sound economic reasoning and institutional realities is required to challenge neoliberal and arbitrary populist policies. Based on an introductory analysis of Modern Money Theory (MMT) this book seeks to present an alternative viewpoint on macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy to address the challenges of economic growth un­employment and inequality. While adherents of MMT are convinced of its robustness the challenge is to reframe macroeconomic discourse which must essentially reject the notion that an economy is financially constrained and instead turn the spotlight on real resource and governance constraints. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Maximum Government Maximum Governance Reframing India’s Macroeconomic Discourse

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Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain

Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain

The amputation of a limb is a surgical intervention used as a last resort to remove irreparably damaged diseased or congenitally malformed limbs where retention of the limb is a threat to the well-being of the individual. The procedure traumatically alters the body image but often leaves sensations that refer to the missing body part the phantom limb. In 50-80% of cases these sensations are perceived as painful and referred to as ‘Phantom Limb Pain’. Direct Nerve Stimulation for Induction of Sensation and Treatment of Phantom Limb Pain provides an overview of research experiences and results for the design development and test of hardware and software components and the ambition to safely implant and evaluate a novel neural interface system to combat phantom limb pain in an amputee volunteer subject.

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Mass Fatality Management Concise Field Guide

Mass Fatality Management Concise Field Guide

In a mass fatality incident members of the medical examiner or coroner‘s office are faced with a host of complex and time-sensitive responsibilities. These include identifying victims collecting property and evidence determining cause and manner of death issuing death certificates and returning the bodies to their families. Written for all personnel involved in these incidents Mass Fatality Management Concise Field Guide outlines the necessary components to prepare for and manage mass fatalities. Topics covered in this practical manual include: Administrative operations including the release of information death certificates logistics and personnel management Incident site assessment search and recovery and evacuation Morgue operations including the admitting station radiography dental examination and fingerprints DNA testing and release of the body Site selection and procedures for the Family Assistance Center Issues related to weapons of mass destruction including recognition personnel assignment decontamination and the transportation of fatalities Mass burial guidelines Each chapter features a convenient bulleted format and includes forms and illustrations to enhance the narrative. The Appendix includes supplemental information on mass fatality personnel description external physical examination procedures standard internal body examination procedures (the forensic autopsy) dental identification procedures body release and the mobile morgue equipment inventory list. An accompanying rewritable CD-ROM allows readers to enter data electronically and print out completed forms. The information in this book will enable those organizations tasked with managing these incidents to more effectively develop a mass fatality plan; prepare a needs-assessment list; identify local resources fo

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Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

Ophthalmic Imaging serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager. Ophthalmic imaging combines photography and diagnostic imaging to provide insight into not only the health of the eye but also the health of the human body as a whole. Ophthalmic photographers are specialists in imaging through and in the human eye one of the only parts of the body where the circulation and nervous system is visible non-invasively. With technical perspective as context this book will provide instructional techniques as well as the background needed for problem solving in this exciting field. The book covers all aspects of contemporary ophthalmic imaging and provides image support to ophthalmologists and sub-specialties including retinal specialists corneal specialists neuro-ophthalmologists and ocular oncologists. This text serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager or to imagers just getting started in the field. | Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography

GBP 150.00
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Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct identities for meaningful human existence. The disciplinary power and dominance coerce the natural body to resist and yearn for freedom. One can establish unique identity by refusing to conform to pressures of society that deform the natural body. Dominant forces and oppressive structures evoke resistance that can range from 'polite demurral' to 'refusal'. Resistance comes from the 'will' that refuses to be controlled and governed. The 'refusal' of the ordinary illuminates ordinary lives/ bodies. Language and literary texts contain essential truths of such human existence. Words and imaginary worlds in literary works reveal truth and suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the order. | Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

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Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard

Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J.G. Ballard

This book proposes that Ballard’s novels extrapolate the formation of a posthuman subjectivity that is centred around an affirmative understanding of what a human body can do. This new subjectivity transforms constraints and prescribed desires into creative openings in a hyper-mediated control society that conditions docile bodies through technology and consumerism. Set in surrealist predicaments in postwar affluent Western societies Ballard’s novels remind us of the fragile veneer of order in the familiar every day. In these moments of crisis complacent characters are compelled to undergo a process of defamiliarisation and transformation of their understanding of the self and the body. The ability to form new relationships with the unfamiliar is imperative to survival in a hostile environment. Ballard delineates both the possibilities and obstacles of forming these relationships. In particular the author attributes the failure to do so to the irreconcilable contradictions of late capitalism. | Posthuman Subjectivity in the Novels of J. G. Ballard

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