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Embodying illness, embodying cancer

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 1990
Individuals and societies embody illnesses in different ways, in part determined by the way a person knows and lives his or her diagnosis and prognosis. Based on research in Northern Italy, on the experiences and meanings of cancer and on the practice of nondisclosure of the diagnosis, we find nondisclosure reflects a world divided--life/death, good ...
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To be or not to be (embodied): That is not the question

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 2019
Two articles in a recent special issue on Information and the Body published in the journal Library Trends stand out because of the way they are identifying, albeit indirectly, a formidable challenge to library information science (LIS). In her contribution, Bates warns that understanding information behavior demands recognizing and studying “any one ...
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The Embodiment of Meaning and the Meaning of Embodiment

Journal of Yoga Studies, 2023
Drawing on the example of kuśtī-pahalvānī (traditional wrestling in India) to engage with arguments presented in each of the chapters that have come before, this “Afterword” engages with the problem of how meaning is assigned to physical practices and to the body engaged in various forms of self-development and self-discipline.
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EMBODIED SEMANTICS: EMBODIED COGNITION IN NEUROSCIENCE

German Life and Letters, 2017
ABSTRACTThis article discusses how the formation of abstract concepts in the brain is related to the basic mechanisms of perception and motor action. It also provides an overview of the neuroscientific techniques currently used to investigate these processes.
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Embodying measurement

Science, 2023
Measuring with body parts is a handy and persistent cross-cultural ...
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The Embodiment of Mind

Daedalus, 2006
The paper considers a Darwinian approach to the traditional mind-body problem and the problem of consciousness, called ‘neural Darwinism’. It describes essential features of consciousness and brain structures, putting strong emphasis not just on the action of brain regions but also on their interaction.
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Embodied interaction

ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications, 2002
Embodied Interaction, explores the components of interactive media, with a primary focus on the role that interaction design has on virtual experiences. My electronic artwork is concerned with the transformation of the human species, specifically its biological components and its behavioral characteristics.
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Problems of Embodiment and Problematic Embodiment

Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 2001
Using Judith Butler's notion that bodies are materialized via performances, “resig-nifying” disability involves a “democratizing contestation” of staircases because they exclude those in wheelchairs. Paleoanthropologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone shows how consistent bipedal locomotion, together with the knowledge that we will die (upon which mutuality is
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Embodying Rhythm:

2019
In this essay, Abby Carlozzo explores insights on improvisation gained from her fieldwork in Burkina Faso. She explores the philosophical and ideological tensions that arise from North American and European understandings of improvisation as a discrete creative practice vis a vis an “Africanist” perspective that understands improvisation as ...
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The experience of embodiment scale: Development and psychometric evaluation

Body Image, 2020
Niva Piran, Alyssa Counsell
exaly