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The Body Multiple

Author : Annemarie Mol
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384159
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Body Multiple written by Annemarie Mol and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Body in Question

Author : Jill Ciment
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 052556537X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book The Body in Question written by Jill Ciment and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *** NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** A 52 year-old photographer and a 41 year-old anatomy professor are jurors sequestered during a sensational three-week trial: a toddler murdered by one of his twin sisters. At the court appointed cut-rate motel off the interstate, they fall into an intense, furtive affair, but it is only during deliberations that the lovers learn they are on opposing sides of the case. Suddenly they look at one another through an altogether different lens. After the trial, the photographer returns to her much older husband amidst an ongoing media frenzy over the case. But the judge has received an anonymous letter about the affair, and she is preparing to release the jurors names. From that point on, the photographer’s “one last dalliance before she is too old” takes on profoundly personal and moral consequences, as The Body in Question moves to its affecting, powerful, and surprising conclusion.

Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots

Author : Bernd Henze
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030872122
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots written by Bernd Henze and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims at providing algorithms for balance control of legged, torque-controlled humanoid robots. A humanoid robot normally uses the feet for locomotion. This paradigm is extended by addressing the challenge of multi-contact balancing, which allows a humanoid robot to exploit an arbitrary number of contacts for support. Using multiple contacts increases the size of the support polygon, which in turn leads to an increased robustness of the stance and to an increased kinematic workspace of the robot. Both are important features for facilitating a transition of humanoid robots from research laboratories to real-world applications, where they are confronted with multiple challenging scenarios, such as climbing stairs and ladders, traversing debris, handling heavy loads, or working in confined spaces. The distribution of forces and torques among the multiple contacts is a challenging aspect of the problem, which arises from the closed kinematic chain given by the robot and its environment.

Kinematics and Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems

Author : J. Angeles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3709143624
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kinematics and Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems written by J. Angeles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three main disciplines in the area of multibody systems are covered: kinematics, dynamics, and control, as pertaining to systems that can be modelled as coupling or rigid bodies. The treatment is intended to give a state of the art of the topics discussed.

Medicine in the Meantime

Author : Ramah McKay
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822372193
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Medicine in the Meantime written by Ramah McKay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of medical services. At once temporary and unfolding over decades, these projects also enact deeply divergent understandings of what care means and who does it. In Medicine in the Meantime, Ramah McKay follows two medical projects in Mozambique through the day-to-day lives of patients and health care providers, showing how transnational medical resources and infrastructures give rise to diverse possibilities for work and care amid constraint. Paying careful attention to the specific postcolonial and postsocialist context of Mozambique, McKay considers how the presence of NGOs and the governing logics of the global health economy have transformed the relations—between and within bodies, medical technologies, friends, kin, and organizations—that care requires and how such transformations pose new challenges for ethnographic analysis and critique.

Eating in Theory

Author : Annemarie Mol
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012927
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Eating in Theory written by Annemarie Mol and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we taste, chew, swallow, digest, and excrete, our foods transform us, while our eating, in its turn, affects the wider earthly environment. In Eating in Theory Annemarie Mol takes inspiration from these transformative entanglements to rethink what it is to be human. Drawing on fieldwork at food conferences, research labs, health care facilities, restaurants, and her own kitchen table, Mol reassesses the work of authors such as Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas. They celebrated the allegedly unique capability of humans to rise above their immediate bodily needs. Mol, by contrast, appreciates that as humans we share our fleshy substance with other living beings, whom we cultivate, cut into pieces, transport, prepare, and incorporate—and to whom we leave our excesses. This has far-reaching philosophical consequences. Taking human eating seriously suggests a reappraisal of being as transformative, knowing as entangling, doing as dispersed, and relating as a matter of inescapable dependence.

I Was Poisoned by My Body...

Author : Gloria Gilbere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Was Poisoned by My Body... written by Gloria Gilbere and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Gilbere is one of America's leading natural medicine researchers and an authoritative influence in the discovery of the causes, effects and natural solutions of leaky gut syndrome and the related disorders. She is a leading advocate in identifying and reversing multiple chemical sensitivity syndromes. This book reads like a detective story, guiding the reader to clues and solutions with every turn of the page. It is truly a personal odyssey that will open eyes, minds and hearts to invisible gut causes and life-changing consequences for victims of complex autoimmune, inflammatory and digestive disorders." -- from the publisher.

Estimation of the Time Since Death

Author : Burkhard Madea
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1444181777
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Estimation of the Time Since Death written by Burkhard Madea and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the success of previous editions which covered the early postmortem period, this new edition also covers the later postmortem period including putrefactive changes, entomology, and postmortem r

Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy

Author : Margaret R Hunter
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780857006103
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Reflections of Body Image in Art Therapy written by Margaret R Hunter and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising that problems with body image are often the lead cause of eating disorders, therapists are increasingly looking for innovative and effective ways to address these issues with clients. This book is packed with simple, inexpensive art-based activities that use a range of media to engage with common body image concerns openly and creatively. The activities employ basic principles from Behavioral Therapy including mindfulness and emotion regulation and use common and familiar objects to create a reassuring environment. Discussion and evaluation are encouraged throughout to enhance awareness and appreciation of self. All the exercises, and their objectives, are thoroughly explained with illustrative case studies and sample artworks from the author's extensive therapeutic experience. These adaptable art exercises will be the perfect resource for any professional to promote healthy body image in group or individual work, with girls and women. They can be used as preventative strategies with girls still developing their identities, and will be especially useful at all stages of eating disorder treatment programs.

Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots

Author : Abhijit Mahapatra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811529531
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Multi-body Dynamic Modeling of Multi-legged Robots written by Abhijit Mahapatra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the development of an integrated approach for generating the path and gait of realistic hexapod robotic systems. It discusses in detail locomation with straight-ahead, crab and turning motion capabilities in varying terrains, like sloping surfaces, staircases, and various user-defined rough terrains. It also presents computer simulations and validation using Virtual Prototyping (VP) tools and real-world experiments. The book also explores improving solutions by applying the developed nonlinear, constrained inverse dynamics model of the system formulated as a coupled dynamical problem based on the Newton–Euler (NE) approach and taking into account realistic environmental conditions. The approach is developed on the basis of rigid multi-body modelling and the concept that there is no change in the configuration of the system in the short time span of collisions.

The Endothelium

Author : Michel Félétou
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1615041230
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Endothelium written by Michel Félétou and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The endothelium, a monolayer of endothelial cells, constitutes the inner cellular lining of the blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) and the lymphatic system, and therefore is in direct contact with the blood/lymph and the circulating cells. The endothelium is a major player in the control of blood fluidity, platelet aggregation and vascular tone, a major actor in the regulation of immunology, inflammation and angiogenesis, and an important metabolizing and an endocrine organ. Endothelial cells controls vascular tone, and thereby blood flow, by synthesizing and releasing relaxing and contracting factors such as nitric oxide, metabolites of arachidonic acid via the cyclooxygenases, lipoxygenases and cytochrome P450 pathways, various peptides (endothelin, urotensin, CNP, adrenomedullin, etc.), adenosine, purines, reactive oxygen species and so on. Additionally, endothelial ectoenzymes are required steps in the generation of vasoactive hormones such as angiotensin II. An endothelial dysfunction linked to an imbalance in the synthesis and/or the release of these various endothelial factors may explain the initiation of cardiovascular pathologies (from hypertension to atherosclerosis) or their development and perpetuation. Table of Contents: Introduction / Multiple Functions of the Endothelial Cells / Calcium Signaling in Vascular Cells and Cell-to-Cell Communications / Endothelium-Dependent Regulation of Vascular Tone / Conclusion / References

Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics

Author : Michael Blundell
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0750651121
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Multibody Systems Approach to Vehicle Dynamics written by Michael Blundell and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2004 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive, up-to-date and firmly rooted in practical experience, a key publication for all automotive engineers, dynamicists and students.

Complexities

Author : John Law
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383551
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Complexities written by John Law and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-10 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy, itself, is too simplistic. John Law and Annemarie Mol have gathered a distinguished panel of contributors to offer—particularly within the field of science studies—approaches to a theory of complexity, and at the same time a theoretical introduction to the topic. Indeed, they examine not only ways of relating to complexity but complexity in practice. Individual essays study complexity from a variety of perspectives, addressing market behavior, medical interventions, aeronautical design, the governing of supranational states, ecology, roadbuilding, meteorology, the science of complexity itself, and the psychology of childhood trauma. Other topics include complex wholes (holism) in the sciences, moral complexity in seemingly amoral endeavors, and issues relating to the protection of African elephants. With a focus on such concepts as multiplicity, partial connections, and ebbs and flows, the collection includes narratives from Kenya, Great Britain, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands, France, and the meetings of the European Commission, written by anthropologists, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, and scholars of science, technology, and society. Contributors. Andrew Barry, Steven D. Brown, Michel Callon, Chunglin Kwa, John Law, Nick Lee, Annemarie Mol, Marilyn Strathern, Laurent Thévenot, Charis Thompson

Improvising Medicine

Author : Julie Livingston
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822353423
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Improvising Medicine written by Julie Livingston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focused on Botswana's only dedicated oncology ward, Improvising Medicine renders the experiences of patients, their relatives, and clinical staff during a cancer epidemic.

The Body in the Woods

Author : April Henry
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805098526
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Body in the Woods written by April Henry and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new series told from multiple perspectives, teen members of a search and rescue team discover a dead body in the woods.

The Republic of Therapy

Author : Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822393506
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book The Republic of Therapy written by Vinh-Kim Nguyen and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and 2000, when the global health community acknowledged a right to treatment, making the drugs more available. During the intervening years, when antiretrovirals were scarce in Africa, triage decisions were made determining who would receive lifesaving treatment. Nguyen explains how those decisions altered social relations in West Africa. In 1994, anxious to “break the silence” and “put a face to the epidemic,” international agencies unwittingly created a market in which stories about being HIV positive could be bartered for access to limited medical resources. Being able to talk about oneself became a matter of life or death. Tracing the cultural and political logic of triage back to colonial classification systems, Nguyen shows how it persists in contemporary attempts to design, fund, and implement mass treatment programs in the developing world. He argues that as an enactment of decisions about who may live, triage constitutes a partial, mobile form of sovereignty: what might be called therapeutic sovereignty.

Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra

Author : Steven Feld
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351625
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Jazz Cosmopolitanism in Accra written by Steven Feld and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The distinguished scholar Steven Feld shaped the field of the anthropology of sound and music. In this new work, he looks at the vernacular cosmopolitanism of a group of jazz players in Ghana, including some who have traveled widely, played with American jazz greats, and blended Coltrane with local instruments and philosophy. He describes their cosmopolitan outlook as an accoustemology, a way of knowing the world through sound. Feld combines memoir, biography, ethnography, and history, telling a story of diasporic intimacy and dialogue that contests both American nationalist and Afrocentric narrations of jazz history.