scholarly journals Roman Baths: An Alternate Mode of Viewing the Evidence

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Roman Baths

Roman baths are an important component in furthering our knowledge of Roman social life. They functioned as more than just a locus for cleansing the body. Currently, the literary sources provide the most details about the various social activities that occurred in the baths. However, where these activities took place within the complexes remains unclear. Archaeological reports do not adequately address how the rooms functioned. The argument presented here outlines some of the problems with the current methodology for examining room function in room baths. Then, using the site of Hammat Gader in Israel, introduces a different mode of viewing the evidence.

Relinquishing the Body to Reach the Pure Land

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline I. Stone
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Pure Land ◽  
Literary Sources

Premodern Japanese historical and literary sources relate examples of devotees who burned or drowned themselves with the aim of achieving birth after death in a buddha’s pure land. Originally confined to ascetic practitioners, suicide to reach a pure land (J. jigai ōjō) eventually intersected with traditions of warrior suicide to accompany one’s lord in death, or to avoid surrendering to the enemy. In literature, ōjō-suicide assumes a gendered dimension, as we see in accounts of women’s self-destruction following the loss of husbands or children, thereby recasting, in a salvific light, suicides that would otherwise have been seen as sinful or unbearably tragic.

Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis: Total rehabilitation with fixed prosthesis on dental implants

2021 ◽  
pp. 239719832110043
Author(s):  
Miguel Angel Garcés Villalá ◽  
Carolina Zorrilla Albert
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Sclerosis ◽  
Bone Loss ◽  
Dental Implants ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Connective Tissue Diseases ◽  
The Body ◽  
Calcinosis Cutis ◽  
Complex Disorders ◽  
Standardized Parameters

Introduction: Limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis with special manifestations (calcinosis cutis, Raynaud’s phenomenon, esophageal dysmotility, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia) is part of the group of connective tissue diseases, these rare autoimmune systemic pathologies cause thickening and hardening of tissues in different parts of the body and can lead to complex disorders. Oral manifestations of systemic sclerosis may include limited ability to open the mouth, xerostomia, periodontal disease, enlarged periodontal ligament, and bone resorption of the jaw. Case Description: A 54-year-old Caucasian patient presented with oral pain, swallowing, phonation and chewing difficulties associated with dental instability, hygiene/handling difficulties and her main problem with microstomia, which prevented her from removing the skeletal prosthesis for 4 years, depriving her of social life. Gradual treatment with dental implants was diagnosed and planned to support a fixed total denture adapted to the ridge with self-cleaning characteristics. After implant insertion, panoramic radiographs with standardized parameters were taken to compare crestal bone levels at the time of prosthesis placement and with 10 years of follow-up. Conclusion: The average crestal bone loss of the 12 implants after the 10 years of follow-up was 1.26 mm for the maxilla and 1.17 mm for the mandible. The survival of the 12 support implants of two total fixed prostheses in a clinical/radiographic follow-up of 10 years was 100%. After 10 years of follow-up, the 12 implants inserted had a bone loss similar to that of healthy patients and no pathologies were registered, recovering function, aesthetics, and self-esteem. This therapy must be implemented before the interincisal distance decreases to 30 mm to allow intraoral surgical/prosthetic access. Implant-supported total fixed rehabilitation is a viable, predictable, and recommended therapy in patients with limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis.

The conflict between mind and body – the case of Mrs. R.

Physiotherapy ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Stępień ◽  
Sylwia Chładzińska-Kiejna ◽  
Katarzyna Salamon-Krakowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Psychiatric Hospitalizations ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Memory Awareness ◽  
And Control

AbstractDissociative psychopathology is understood as an immature defence mechanism of personality, based on the techniques of reality distortion. The natural cause of a disorder reflects the lack of sense of coherence between identity, memory, awareness, perception and consequently - goal orientated action. Its symptoms manifest the separation of emotions, thoughts and behaviours bound with an event in order to maintain an illusory sense of control of demanding and unbearable experience.We describe the case of a 57-year-old woman suffering from broad range of dissociative symptoms from early childhood. Decomposition of integrity between memories, a sense of self-identity and control of the body has become the cause of numerous suicide attempts, multiple psychiatric hospitalizations and not fully effective therapy attempts. Destructive influence of psychopathological symptoms negatively influenced patient’s life course, decisions made as well as family, work and social life.

Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation. By David McNally. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 277p. $72.50 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Xenos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real

David McNally styles this book as beginning in a polemic and ending in a “materialist approach to language” much indebted to the German critic Walter Benjamin. The charge is that “postmodernist theory, whether it calls itself poststructuralism, deconstruction or post-Marxism, is constituted by a radical attempt to banish the real human body—the sensate, biocultural, laboring body—from the sphere of language and social life” (p. 1). By treating language as an abstraction, McNally argues, postmodernism constitutes a form of idealism. More than that, it succumbs to and perpetuates the fetishism of commodities disclosed by Marx insofar as it treats the products of human laboring bodies as entities independently of them. Clearly irritated by the claims to radicalism made by those he labels postmodern, McNally thinks he has found their Achilles' heel: “The extra-discursive body, the body that exceeds language and discourse, is the ‘other’ of the new idealism, the entity it seeks to efface in order to bestow absolute sovereignty on language. To acknowledge the centrality of the sensate body to language and society is thus to threaten the whole edifice of postmodernist theory” (p. 2).

scholarly journals Hidradenitis Suppurativa: “A surgical Update with Review of Literature”

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
UwaisRiaz Ul Hasan ◽  
◽  
Farooq Qureishi ◽  
Khathija Hasan ◽  
Nidal Khraisat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Hidradenitis Suppurativa ◽  
Skin Condition ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fistula Formation ◽  
Sweat Glands ◽  
Chronic Patients ◽  
Foul Smell ◽  
Chronic Skin ◽  
End Stage

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic skin disease primarily affecting the sweat glands apocrine zone of the body and what starts initially as an abscess progresses to nodules, sinus tracts, with cicatrisation fistula formation and ulcers. It is common to see all the stages of clinical spectrum viz multiple solitary abscess to nodules with sinus, fistulas with ulceration and cicatrisation in chronic patients. This chronic illness takes a toll on the psyche of these individuals as the need to avoid foul smell and the constant need for dressing dictate their social life. The patients are notoriously know for follow up for years. A low self-esteem and depression are companions of hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) individuals. Early involvement of the surgeon can substantially improve the progress and evolution of this chronic skin condition and could obviate the development of SCC the end stage of all Chronic neglected Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) cases especially in the hi risk older age group of individuals

ECOLOGICAL FEATURES OF HIBERNATING ANIMALS OF YAKUTIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 16-27
Author(s):  
V.T. Sedalishchev ◽  
V.A. Odnokurtsev
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Ground Squirrel ◽  
Brown Bear ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ecological Features ◽  
Winter Conditions ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Physiological Adaptations

Under the influence of environmental factors, in winter-sleeping animals living in extreme winter conditions, a wide range of mechanisms of ecological and physiological adaptations is mani-fested that ensure the normal course of wintering and the survival of populations of species after its end. We carried out an analysis of our own data and literary sources on ecology and endoparasite infestation in three species of rodents – black-capped marmot, Asian long-tailed ground squirrel, Siberian (Asian) chipmunk, and in a representative of predators– brown bear. Data on the distribu-tion of the listed species of hibernating animals in the territory of Yakutia, their reproduction, nutri-tion, the extent of infestation by helminths, hibernation, time of bedding and awakening are given. Before going into hibernation, all hibernating animals reduce their diet and resort to hunger strikes. During this period, liquid and solid excrement is excreted from the body and, together with food waste, helminths leave or destrobilatethe gastrointestinal tract.

Governing Homelessness through Running

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan C Clift
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self In Relation ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
A Site

In the context of social welfare austerity and non-state actors’ interventions into social life, an urban not-for-profit organization in the United States, Back on My Feet, uses the practice of running to engage those recovering from homelessness. Promoting messages of self-sufficiency, the organization centralizes the body as a site of investment and transformation. Doing so calls to the fore the social construction of ‘the homeless body’ and ‘the running body’. Within this ethnographic inquiry, participants in recovery who ran with the organization constructed moralized senses of self in relation to volunteers, organizers, and those who do not run, while in recovery. Their experiences compel consideration of how bodily constructions and practices reproduce morally underpinned, self-oriented associations with homeless and neoliberal discourses that obfuscate systemic causes of homelessness, pose challenges for well-intentioned voluntary or development organizations, and service the relief of the state from social responsibility.

The Division of a Syndrome

2020 ◽  
pp. 166-188
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fein
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
The Body ◽  
Ethnographic Case Study ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Clinical Ethnography ◽  
The World ◽  
Medical Paradigm ◽  
Clinical Paradigm

This chapter provides an ethnographic case study of divided medicalization—the process through which multivalent, identitarian conditions get produced and then reduced to fit within a preexisting, disease-oriented clinical paradigm. The chapter is a clinical ethnography of a clinic located within a university medical center in an East Coast city, serving children diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. As medical categorizations and classifications expanded beyond the borders of the body to examine and remedy disorders of social life in the world, the staff shifted their own practice, exploring interventions that were playful and social, determined by pleasures as well as pathologies, and driven by the goal of expanding relationships rather than containing contagion. These interventions, however, crossed and complicated the clinic's carefully maintained boundaries between the inside and the outside of both the building and the body. In the end, the elements of autism that least fit within the existing medical paradigm were not incorporated into that paradigm but instead came to be extruded from it. Interpersonal, aesthetic, and identitarian elements of the condition were at first invited into but then gradually banished from the clinic, leaving behind an incomplete representation of complex social phenomena as diseases to be eliminated from individuals.

Habitus and Field

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Leander
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
The Body ◽  
International Studies ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Implicit And Explicit ◽  
Heuristic Devices

The terms habitus and field are useful heuristic devices for thinking about power relations in international studies. Habitus refers to a person’s taken-for-granted, unreflected—hence largely habitual—way of thinking and acting. The habitus is a “structuring structure” shaping understandings, attitudes, behavior, and the body. It is formed through the accumulated experience of people in different fields. Using fields to study the social world is to acknowledge that social life is highly differentiated. A field can be exceedingly varied in scope and scale. A family, a village, a market, an organization, or a profession may be conceptualized as a field provided it develops its own organizing logic around a stake at stake. Each field is marked by its own taken-for-granted understanding of the world, implicit and explicit rules of behavior, and valuation of what confers power onto someone: that is, what counts as “capital.” The analysis of power through the habitus/field makes it possible to transcend the distinctions between the material and the “ideational” as well as between the individual and the structural. Moreover, working with habitus/field in international studies problematizes the role played by central organizing divides, such as the inside/outside and the public/private; and can uncover politics not primarily structured by these divides. Developing research drawing on habitus/field in international studies will be worthwhile for international studies scholars wishing to raise and answer questions about symbolic power/violence.

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