The Body In Medical Thought And Practice

Author : D. Leder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401579247

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The Body in Medical Thought and Practice by D. Leder Pdf

In the second half of the 20th century, the body has become a central theme of intellectual debate. How should we perceive the human body? Is it best understood biologically, experientially, culturally? How do social institutions exercise power over the body and determine norms of health and behavior? The answers arrived at by phenomenologists, social theorists, and feminists have radically challenged our cenventional notions of the body dating back to 17th century Cartesian thought. This is the first volume to systematically explore the range of contemporary thought concerning the body and draw out its crucial implications for medicine. Its authors suggest that many of the problems often found in modern medicine -- dehumanized treatment, overspecialization, neglect of the mind's healing resources -- are directly traceable to medicine's outmoded concepts of the body. New and exciting alternatives are proposed by some of the foremost physicians and philosophers working in the medical humanities today.

Author : Drew Leder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226396248

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The Distressed Body by Drew Leder Pdf

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms. They can well up from within at times of serious illness, but the body can also be subjected to harsh treatment from outside. The medical system is often cold and depersonalized, and much worse are conditions experienced by prisoners in our age of mass incarceration, and by animals trapped in our factory farms. In this pioneering book, Drew Leder offers bold new ways to rethink how we create and treat distress, clearing the way for more humane social practices. Leder draws on literary examples, clinical and philosophical sources, his medical training, and his own struggle with chronic pain. He levies a challenge to the capitalist and Cartesian models that rule modern medicine. Similarly, he looks at the root paradigms of our penitentiary and factory farm systems and the way these produce distressed bodies, asking how such institutions can be reformed. Writing with coauthors ranging from a prominent cardiologist to long-term inmates, he explores alternative environments that can better humanize—even spiritualize—the way we treat one another, offering a very different vision of medical, criminal justice, and food systems. Ultimately Leder proposes not just new answers to important bioethical questions but new ways of questioning accepted concepts and practices.

Author : William C. Cockerham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444314793

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The New Blackwell Companion to Medical Sociology by William C. Cockerham Pdf

An authoritative, topical, and comprehensive reference to the keyconcepts and most important traditional and contemporary issues inmedical sociology. Contains 35 chapters by recognized experts in the field, bothestablished and rising young scholars Covers standard topics in the field as well as new and engagingissues such as bioterrorism, bioethics, and infectious disease Chapters are thematically arranged to cover the major issues ofthe sub-discipline Global range of contributors and an internationalperspective

Author : Bessel A. Van der Kolk
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780143127741

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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk Pdf

Originally published by Viking Penguin, 2014.

Author : Annemarie Mol
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780822384151

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The Body Multiple by Annemarie Mol Pdf

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaflet might describe atherosclerosis as the gradual obstruction of the arteries, but in hospital practice this one medical condition appears to be many other things. From one moment, place, apparatus, specialty, or treatment, to the next, a slightly different “atherosclerosis” is being discussed, measured, observed, or stripped away. This multiplicity does not imply fragmentation; instead, the disease is made to cohere through a range of tactics including transporting forms and files, making images, holding case conferences, and conducting doctor-patient conversations. The Body Multiple juxtaposes two distinct texts. Alongside Mol’s analysis of her ethnographic material—interviews with doctors and patients and observations of medical examinations, consultations, and operations—runs a parallel text in which she reflects on the relevant literature. Mol draws on medical anthropology, sociology, feminist theory, philosophy, and science and technology studies to reframe such issues as the disease-illness distinction, subject-object relations, boundaries, difference, situatedness, and ontology. In dialogue with one another, Mol’s two texts meditate on the multiplicity of reality-in-practice. Presenting philosophical reflections on the body and medical practice through vivid storytelling, The Body Multiple will be important to those in medical anthropology, philosophy, and the social study of science, technology, and medicine.

Author : Andrew Strathern
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0472065807

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Body Thoughts by Andrew Strathern Pdf

Provides an excellent review of anthropological thought on the body

Author : Iain J.M. Robertson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317122432

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Heritage from Below by Iain J.M. Robertson Pdf

Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.

Author : Bill Green,Nick Hopwood
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 3319375172

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The Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education by Bill Green,Nick Hopwood Pdf

The body matters, in practice. How then might we think about the body in our work in and on professional practice, learning and education? What value is there in realising and articulating the notion of the professional practitioner as crucially embodied? Beyond that, what of conceiving of the professional practice field itself as a living corporate body? How is the body implicated in understanding and researching professional practice, learning and education? Body/Practice is an extensive volume dedicated to exploring these and related questions, philosophically and empirically. It constitutes a rare but much needed reframing of scholarship relating to professional practice and its relation with professional learning and professional education more generally. It takes bodies seriously, developing theoretical frameworks, offering detailed analyses from empirical studies, and opening up questions of representation. The book is organized into four parts: I. ‘Introducing the Body in Professional Practice, Learning and Education’; II. ‘Thinking with the Body in Professional Practice’; III. ‘The Body in Question in Health Professional Education and Practice’; IV. ‘Concluding Reflections’. It brings together researchers from a range of disciplinary and professional practice fields, including particular reference to Health and Education. Across fifteen chapters, the authors explore a broad range of issues and challenges with regard to corporeality, practice theory and philosophy, and professional education, providing an innovative, coherent and richly informed account of what it means to bring the body back in, with regard to professional education and beyond.

Author : Andrzej Kapusta,Michal Lytovka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443873796

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Medical Humanities in Theory and Practice by Andrzej Kapusta,Michal Lytovka Pdf

This volume explores the social, historical and cultural dimensions of medicine, and promotes a multifaceted approach towards health, illness, healthcare and body. The articles gathered here focus on various issues relevant to medical knowledge, public health policies, and the experiences of being ill and of caring for those who are ill. The questions and theories discussed by the authors, concerning methodological, ethical and philosophical aspects of medical knowledge, will serve to open up new vistas of study for the reader.

Author : Laura Schmalzl,Catherine E. Kerr
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
ISBN : 9782889198948

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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Movement-Based Embodied Contemplative Practices by Laura Schmalzl,Catherine E. Kerr Pdf

Relative to the extensive neuroscientific work on seated meditation practices, far less studies have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying movement-based contemplative practices such as yoga or tai chi. Movement-based practices have, however, been found to be effective for relieving the symptoms of several clinical conditions, and to elicit measurable changes in physiological, neural, and behavioral parameters in healthy individuals. An important challenge for neuroscience is therefore to advance our understanding of the neurophysiological and neurocognitive mechanisms underlying these observed effects, and this Research Topic aims to make a contribution in this regard. It showcases the current state of the art of investigations on movement-based practices including yoga, tai chi, the Feldenkrais Method, as well as dance. Featured contributions include empirical research, proposals of theoretical frameworks, as well as novel perspectives on a variety of issues relevant to the field. This Research Topic is the first of its kind to specifically attempt a neurophysiological and neurocognitive characterization that spans multiple mindful movement approaches, and we trust it will be of interest to basic scientists, clinical researchers, and contemplative practitioners alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UCAL:B2941720

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Americanized Encyclopedia Britannica, Revised and Amended by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015068192551

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Americanized Encyclopaedia Britannica by Anonim Pdf

Author : John W. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Medicine
ISBN : NWU:35558005313164

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A Treatise on Medical Psychology by John W. Wright Pdf

Author : Lissa Rankin
Publisher : Hay House
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781401939991

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Mind Over Medicine by Lissa Rankin Pdf

Presents evidence from medical journals that beliefs, thoughts, and feelings can cure the body and shows readers how to apply this knowledge in their own lives. -- provided by publisher.

Author : Mirko Dražen Grmek,Bernardino Fantini
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0674007956

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Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages by Mirko Dražen Grmek,Bernardino Fantini Pdf

This history of medical thought from antiquity through the Middle Ages reconstructs the slow transformations and sudden changes in theory and practice that marked the birth and early development of Western medicine. Grmek and his contributors adopt a synthetic, cross-disciplinary approach, with attention to cultural, social, and economic forces.