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Book The Variable Body in History

Download or read book The Variable Body in History written by Chris Mounsey and published by Queering Paradigms. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book explore the different ways the body has been experienced and interpreted in history, from the medieval to the modern period. The essays present a mosaic of literary representations of disability, bodies and accounts of real lives lived in their particularity and peculiarity. The book presents a group of individual cases from different periods in history.

Book History of the Body

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  • Author : Willemijn Ruberg
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-09-27
  • ISBN : 135200769X
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book History of the Body written by Willemijn Ruberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has come to occupy a central place in cultural history, with historians consistently exploring such themes as the history of disease, disability, beauty, and sexuality. This engaging and concise book offers a clear introduction to the history of the body, introducing a wide array of conceptual approaches to the field. It delineates the topic of body history and its origins in cultural history and gender history, distinguishing it from related disciplines such as the history of the self, the history of medicine, the history of emotion and gender history. Bringing in a wealth of thought-provoking examples from historical writing, it goes on to explore a range of themes, including racism, anorexia, gender and sexuality, psychoanalysis and agency. With further reading and explanations of key concepts provided throughout, this wide-ranging yet accessible text is the first introductory book to address this vibrant field from a theoretical perspective. It is ideal for students of historiography, medical history or the history of the body.

Book Coastal Environments in Popular Song

Download or read book Coastal Environments in Popular Song written by Glenn Fosbraey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how popular music is able to approach subjects of bio-politics, climate change, solastalgia, and anthropomorphisation, alongside its more common diet of songs about love, dancing, and break-ups – all while satisfying its primary remit of being entertaining and listenable. Nearly a thousand books have been published on bioethics since Van Rensselaer Potter’s Bioethics Bridge to the Future (1971), with a marked increase in the past 20 years. However, not one of these books has focused itself on popular music, something Christopher Partridge describes as ‘central to the construction of [our] identities, central to [our] sense of self, central to [our] well-being and, therefore, central to [our] social relations’. This edited collection examines popular music through a range of topics, from romance to climate change. Coastal Environments in Popular Song is perfect for students, scholars, and researchers alike interested in bioethics, social history, and the history of music.

Book Primate Societies

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  • Author : Barbara B. Smuts
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2008-06-03
  • ISBN : 022622046X
  • Pages : 591 pages

Download or read book Primate Societies written by Barbara B. Smuts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primate Societies is a synthesis of the most current information on primate socioecology and its theoretical and empirical significance, spanning the disciplines of behavioral biology, ecology, anthropology, and psychology. It is a very rich source of ideas about other taxa. "A superb synthesis of knowledge about the social lives of non-human primates."—Alan Dixson, Nature

Book Body Psychotherapy  History  Concepts  and Methods

Download or read book Body Psychotherapy History Concepts and Methods written by Michael C. Heller and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-08-20 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yoga to neuroscience, a tour of major ideas about the body and mind. Body psychotherapy, which examines the relationship of bodily and physical experiences to emotional and psychological experiences, seems at first glance to be a relatively new area and on the cutting edge of psychotherapeutic theory and practice. It is, but the major concepts of body/mind treatment are actually drawn from a wide range of historical material, material that spans centuries and continents. Here, in a massively comprehensive book, Michael Heller summarizes all the major concepts, thinkers, and movements whose work has led to the creation of the field we now know as body/mind psychotherapy. The book covers everything from Eastern and Western thought—beginning with yoga and Taosim and moving to Plato and Descartes. It also discusses major developments in biology—how organisms are defined—and neuroscience. This is truly a comprehensive reference for anyone interested in the origins of the idea that the mind and body are not separate and that both must be understood together in order to understand people and their behavior.

Book Those They Called Idiots

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  • Author : Simon Jarrett
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2020-11-05
  • ISBN : 1789143020
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Those They Called Idiots written by Simon Jarrett and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those They Called Idiots traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities from the communities of eighteenth-century England to the nineteenth-century asylum, to care in today’s society. Using evidence from civil and criminal courtrooms, joke books, slang dictionaries, novels, art, and caricature, it explores the explosive intermingling of ideas about intelligence and race, while bringing into sharp focus the lives of people often seen as the most marginalized in society.

Book The History of Philosophy  Ancient philosophy

Download or read book The History of Philosophy Ancient philosophy written by George Henry Lewes and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bodies of Information

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  • Author : Chris Mounsey
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2019-11-04
  • ISBN : 1000734706
  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book Bodies of Information written by Chris Mounsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?

Book The History of Philosophy  Ancient philosophy   Vol  2  Modern philosophy

Download or read book The History of Philosophy Ancient philosophy Vol 2 Modern philosophy written by George Henry Lewes and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Medicine and the History of the Body

Download or read book Medicine and the History of the Body written by Yasuo Otsuka and published by Ishiyaku EuroAmerica, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stakes of History

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  • Author : David N. Myers
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2018-01-09
  • ISBN : 0300231407
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book The Stakes of History written by David N. Myers and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar of Jewish history’s bracing and challenging case for the role of the historian today Why do we study history? What is the role of the historian in the contemporary world? These questions prompted David N. Myers’s illuminating and poignant call for the relevance of historical research and writing. His inquiry identifies a number of key themes around which modern Jewish historians have wrapped their labors: liberation, consolation, and witnessing. Through these portraits, Myers revisits the chasm between history and memory, revealing the middle space occupied by modern Jewish historians as they work between the poles of empathic storytelling and the critical sifting of sources. History, properly applied, can both destroy ideologically rooted myths that breed group hatred and create new memories that are sustaining of life. Alive in these investigations is Myers’s belief that the historian today can and should attend to questions of political and moral urgency. Historical knowledge is not a luxury to society but an essential requirement for informed civic engagement, as well as a vital tool in policy making, conflict resolution, and restorative justice.

Book The American Naturalist

Download or read book The American Naturalist written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Human stem history or phylogeny

Download or read book Human stem history or phylogeny written by Ernst Haeckel and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia

Download or read book Lived Experiences of Ableism in Academia written by Nicole Brown and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demands for excellence and efficiency have created an ableist culture in academia. What impact do these expectations have on disabled, chronically ill and neurodivergent colleagues? This important and eye-opening collection explores ableism in academia from the viewpoint of academics' personal and professional experiences and scholarship. Through the theoretical lenses of autobiography, autoethnography, embodiment, body work and emotional labour, contributors from the UK, Canada and the US present insightful, critical, analytical and rigorous explorations of being ‘othered’ in academia. Deeply embedded in personal experiences, this perceptive book provides examples for universities to develop inclusive practices, accessible working and learning conditions and a less ableist environment.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles  part 1  H  1901

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles part 1 H 1901 written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology

Download or read book Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology written by Colin W. Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to a set of powerful and extremely flexible modeling techniques, starting at "square one" and continuing with carefully chosen applications. Some of these applications of methodology include insect oviposition behavior, overwinter survival of birds and fish, avian migration, resource management, conservation biology, agroecology, and human behavior. This book also explains how to construct, test, and use dynamic state variable models in a wide range of contexts in evolutionary ecology, and its complete and up-to-date coverage allows readers to immediately begin using the described techniques. Dynamic State Variable Models in Ecology is designed for self-instruction or for use in upper division undergraduate or graduate courses. It is ideal for students and scientists interested in behavior, ecology, anthropology, conservation biology, and related fields.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: