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Body of knowledge and the ontology of the body
Theoretical Medicine, 1987The notion of competence in A Philosophical Basis of Medcial Practice presents a problem concerning the ontology of the body. This paper will maintain that an ontology of the body can only be based upon Cartesian grounds whereby the scientific knowable order is supposed to be identical to the natural order of things.
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Body to Body: On the Political Anatomy of Crowds
Sociological Theory, 2009This article challenges the negative image that, since the late 19th century, has been associated with crowds, and it does so by focusing on a number of bodily-anatomic aspects of crowd behavior. I first demonstrate that the work of one of the leading crowd psychologists, Gustave Le Bon, instigated a racist body politics.
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Star Bodies/Freak Bodies/Women's Bodies
Media International Australia, 2008An exploration of the contexts surrounding images of female celebrities in Australian weekly women's magazines complicates any simple cause-and-effect relationship between women's behaviour and celebrity glamour by revealing parallels between the construction of star personae and the discourses surrounding the display of sideshow ‘freaks’.
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Body Parts and Partible Bodies:
Ethnographic descriptions of historic and contemporary peoples with clear connections to prehistoric cultural groups offer ready sources to explore non-Western ontology. Researchers working in the American Southwest and much of Mesoamerica benefit from robust ethnographic accounts that can be fairly unambiguously connected to prehistoric cultures ...Gordon F. M. Rakita +2 more
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Simulation methods for open quantum many-body systems
Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021Hendrik Weimer +2 more
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Borderless Bodies — The Cellulardata Body
2012It is from my embodiment in performance of the most recent human computer system that transformed data from brain and muscle (using the conductivity of skin, rather than markers on the surface of the body, or body movement measured through a camera lens, telematics, motion capture) that I begin to articulate what it is like to perform within the ...
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Body functionality: A review of the literature
Body Image, 2021Jessica M Alleva, Tracy L Tylka
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