Chapter 4: Is Self-Immolation a “Good Practice”? Yongming Yanshou on Relinquishing the Body

2017 ◽  
pp. 104-131
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Immolation

To Extract the Essence from this Essenceless Body

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Ohnuma
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Self Immolation

While ordinary suicide and ascetic self-torture are both condemned outright, and martyrdom seems irrelevant as a category, there are nevertheless several forms of elective death that are legitimated in Buddhist narrative sources from India, including self-sacrifice on behalf of others, and self-immolation as a religious offering. Both of these acts are generally attributed to the bodhisattva, or the being who is working to attain full buddhahood. Even so, while elective death in the form of either self-sacrifice or self-immolation can be rationalized and even celebrated, it is surrounded by ambivalence and anxiety, and accepted only with difficulty. This chapter focuses on the ambivalence surrounding self-sacrifice and self-immolation, an ambivalence that is particularly evident in these stories’ discourse of self and other, and in their discourse of the body that is sacrificed and the body one hopes to achieve.

scholarly journals An Observational Study to Assess the Surgical Asepsis among Nurses Working in Narayana General Hospital, Nellore, Andhra Pradesh

2019 ◽  
pp. 713-718
Author(s):  
V. Jayanthi ◽  
Indira Arumugam ◽  
Latha P
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Cross Infection ◽  
The Body ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Care Worker

Background: Surgical asepsis refers to destruction of organisms before they enter the body, it is used in caring for open wounds and in surgical procedure. Surgical asepsis is the medical practice of maintaining sterility whenever dressing wound or performing any kind of surgery to prevent cross infection. Aseptic technique are used in infection control to prevent cross infection between health care worker and between patients. Aim: The aim of the study was to assess the level of knowledge and practice of staff nurses regarding surgical asepsis. Objectives: 1. To assess the practice regarding surgical asepsis. 2. To find an association between practice with socio demographic variables. Methodology: 100 staff nurses working in NMCH, Nellore were selected by using convenience sampling method. Results: Regarding the level of practice among staff nurses, 10(10%) of them had good practice 80(80%) of them had moderate practice and 10(10%) had poor practice.

A Review of Diagnostic Reference Levels in Computed Tomography

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jemal Edris Dawd ◽  
Dilber Uzun Ozsahin ◽  
Ilker Ozsahin
Keyword(s):  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Image Quality ◽  
Radiation Dose ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Ct Scanning ◽  
Diagnostic Information ◽  
The Body ◽  
Reference Level ◽  
Technical Parameters ◽  
Wide Range

: Computed tomography (CT) scanning generate 3-D images of the inside structures of the body by delivering comparatively radiation dose to the patient. This requires high concern of optimization via establishing diagnostic reference level (DRL). DRL values can be estimated based on reference patient percentiles (such as 90th, 75th and 50th) dose distribution. DRL has significant uses in professional judgments by generating harmonized evidence about the radiation dose received by the patient. The primary goal of this review is to assess the practical application of DRL in CT procedures internationally. The main objective of establishing DRLs is to optimize the patient dose and without compromising the image quality in order to obtain adequate diagnostic information. That means inescapability of DRL for a country in medical diagnosis is to reduce the limitation of dose dispersion, to harmonize and expand good practice, to narrow large dispersion of doses, and to create systematic supervision for unwanted radiological doses. The review presents that international records have a wide-range of mean dose distributions due to the variation of exam protocols and technical parameters in use. Hence, this review recommends that each CT health facilities are required exercising careful dose reduction strategies by accounting adequate image quality with sufficient diagnostic information via through follow up of concerned bodies.

The practice of the development of researchers: the “state-of-the-art”

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Bromley ◽  
Lorna Warnock
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Body ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Rigorous Study ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Creativity And Innovation ◽  
Published Research ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose In this review paper, the authors are particularly interested in the growth in the scholarly investigation of the efficacy of developmental interventions for doctoral and early career researchers. This paper aims to provide a “State of the Art” overview of the emerging fields of research and suggest areas that command more research. Design/methodology/approach A foundation of key disseminations relating to the new discipline has become established, and it is the outputs of these that the authors look to first in their review. However, much of the work is reported in the proceedings of two specific conferences, known to the authors and does not appear in database searches, which results in a concentration of research in two specific countries, namely, the UK and Australia. Relatively little is found from database searches, however approached, but the authors also report on this work. Findings There is a general gap in the depth of the body of work in all areas of literature relating to research on the practice of developing researchers. We have identified specific areas as the most limited in terms of the body of published research including research governance; work life balance; engagement influence and impact training and creativity and innovation training. Research limitations/implications There is much work as yet unpublished and the practice of rigorous study and publication is not yet generally embedded in this research discipline. Practical implications Without the depth of rigorous and robust findings of research to provide us with evidence of good practice, the emergent discipline will struggle to have integrity in its practice. Continued growth in research in this emergent discipline is essential. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review of its kind looking at the published research in respect of the development of researchers.

The Body Politic: Bodily Spectacle and Democratic Agency

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-217
Author(s):  
Michael Feola
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Marginal Groups ◽  
Self Immolation ◽  
Civic Discourses ◽  
Image World

This essay engages an undertheorized form of democratic agency: the embodied spectacle that characterizes a strain of activist politics. Where an existing literature addresses “the spectacle” as a tactic of power, it does not do justice to how marginal groups have used radical bodily acts in order to intervene within the image-world of democratic politics (e.g., hunger strikes, die-ins, self-immolation). The essay argues that such performances represent a standing challenge to democratic theory and demand a more richly sensuous approach to how political claims are made. Such forms of bodily theatre do not only “speak” in ways that exceed official civic discourses but, in so doing, they unsettle the space of citizenship. Ultimately, these bodies do something in being undone.

scholarly journals Malnutrition in Obesity: Is It Possible?

Obesity Facts ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Milena Kobylińska ◽  
Katarzyna Antosik ◽  
Agnieszka Decyk ◽  
Katarzyna Kurowska
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Body Weight ◽  
Metabolic Diseases ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Micronutrient Deficiency ◽  
The Body ◽  
World Health ◽  
Nutritional Deficiencies ◽  
Reduced Body ◽  
Food Deficiency

<b><i>Background:</i></b> The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies malnutrition as the biggest threat to public health worldwide, and this condition is observed in 20–60% of hospitalized patients. Malnutrition is a state of the body in which due to insufficient supply or incorrect absorption of essential nutrients, the body composition changes and the body’s functions are impaired. Malnutrition is associated not only with reduced body mass index but also with obesity. <b><i>Summary:</i></b> Obesity is defined as a paradoxical state of malnutrition, which despite excessive energy consumption is associated with a shortage of individual microelements. Deficiency or lack of homeostasis of essential micronutrients can significantly affect daily performance, intellectual and emotional state, but also the physical state of the body. Food deficiency can also contribute to further weight gain or the development of other metabolic diseases. Micronutrient deficiency may include not only incorrect dietary choices and insufficient access to nutrient-rich foods but also changes in the absorption, distribution or excretion of nutrients, and altered micronutrient metabolism resulting from systemic inflammation caused by obesity. An effective therapy method recommended for people with morbid obesity is bariatric surgery aimed at both weight loss and improving quality of life. Unfortunately, the effects of these treatments are often medium- and long-term complications associated with micronutrient deficiency as a result of reduced consumption or absorption. Therefore, the use of bariatric surgery in patients with extreme obesity can affect the metabolism of microelements and increase the risk of nutritional deficiencies. <b><i>Key Messages:</i></b> Studies by many authors indicate a higher incidence of food deficiency among people with excessive body weight, than in people with normal body weight of the same age and same sex. Monitoring the concentration of minerals and vitamins in blood serum is a good practice in the treatment of obesity. The proper nutritional status of the body affects not only the state of health but also the effectiveness of therapy. The aim of the review was to present the issue of malnutrition in the context of obesity.

The Labyrinth of Genealogy: Poetry of Mehmet Karahüseyinov (1980-1990)

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Sylwia Siedlecka
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equal Importance ◽  
Last Stage ◽  
Self Immolation

The article analyzes poems written by Mehmet Karahüseyinov (1945-1990) in the context of socio-political phenomena in Bulgaria of the 19980s and 1990s. In Karahüseyinov’s poetry, echoes are found of both the “Revival Process” and the “Big Excursion”, as well as of the fall of communism in Bulgaria as a point in history. Autobiographical perspective is of equal importance in the poems: in 1985, in the wake of the last stage of the “Revival Process”, the poet attempted self-immolation. This liminal experience, set in a wider context of what it means to be a representative of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria in the late socialist period, permeates all of Karahüseyinov’s poetry at the time. The article’s methodological axis is a genealogical approach as formulated by Michel Foucault, who, informed by Nietzsche’s thought, wrote of an image of the body utterly marked by history. The body is thus an area which – also in the non-figurative, material dimension – enters the gears of history and where history leaves its marks, and the scarred bodily area becomes a map of a personal and entangled genealogy.

Starvation and Self-Mutilation in Religious Traditions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liz Wilson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
The West ◽  
Buddhist Studies ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Self Mutilation ◽  
The World ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Self Immolation

This chapter investigates the place of destructive acts against oneself—such as starvation and self-mutilation—in the spectrum of violent actions performed in the name of religion. Self-starvation and self-mutilation share some of the ideological and performative features of violence in the name of religion. The self-sacrifice of Quang Duc was demonstrative of a time-tested Buddhist form of bodily practice known in Buddhist studies in the West as self-immolation. It is revealed that self-directed violence can be both an act of devotion and an act of protest. Self-immolation and hunger-striking employ the body as a means of resistance. Like self-conflagration, the hunger strike has become a global phenomenon used on every continent of the world.

scholarly journals Spectacular suffering: Transgressive performance in penal activism

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-668
Author(s):  
Mary S Corcoran
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Public Consumption ◽  
Heuristic Device ◽  
Self Immolation

The spectacle of the body in pain has long functioned heuristically in crime and justice. Within this phenomenon sits a counter-cultural tradition of re-enacting outrages in public view to rally against injustices. This article starts from the established claim that bodily suffering comprises a core matter of humanitarian campaigning. However, if ‘spectacular suffering’ has predominantly been discussed as a visual experience, this article examines its performative aspects. Transgressive performance is evident in demonstrations of forced-feeding, hunger strikes, self-immolation and lip-sewing carried out by prisoners or by their intermediaries with a view to publicizing their cause. During such exhibitions, the body in pain becomes a heuristic device for converting suffering into a medium for public consumption. However, tropes of corporal suffering are susceptible to cultural contestation and resistance from spectators. These possibilities call the publicity of suffering into question as an inherently progressive strategy.

scholarly journals Uso del cuerpo en la protesta política. Significación e implicancias subjetivas de la Autoinmolación en el plano de “Lo Político

2017 ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Igor Moraga
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Individual State ◽  
De Re ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Self Immolation

<p align="center"><strong>Resumen</strong></p><p>La autoinmolación, como acto simbólico de sacrificio en la protesta política, rompe el proceso intrínseco del ser humano de la auto conservación, el escape al dolor y a la muerte trágica. En este punto, la utilización del cuerpo como medio de lucha reconfigura el concepto de soberanía que anteriormente Schmitt desarrollaría como forma última de justificar los procesos de expansión y preservación de la vida, todo esto en base a las ideas de dominio y propiedad territorial. Bajo este punto de vista, pensar en una “soberanía corporal” podría resultar clave a la hora de re significar una autoinmolación como mecanismo de protesta política, donde la pugna es resultado de la diada: individuo/poder totalizante; individuo/status quo y en última instancia, del Individuo/ Estado; además de entender la vida y la muerte como espacios claves de la pugna dóxica entre éstas. Este artículo aborda el acto de la autoinmolación, en su relación con el dominio corporal, el aspecto simbólico que ahí acontece y la resignificación de la muerte como forma de protesta política. Al final del escrito se defiende la tesis de que el acto de la auto inmolación en sí mismo, se configura como una herramienta de propaganda política y acto comunicacional que puede generar un impacto en la sociedad, cuando se es ejercida con un fin colectivo y concéntrico.</p><p><strong>Palabras Clave</strong>: autoinmolación, protesta política, soberanía, politización de la muerte, altruismo.</p><p> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstract.</strong></p><p>The auto-immolation, like symbolic act of sacrifice in the political protest breaks the intrinsic process of the human being of auto-conservation, the escape to the pain and death. In this point, the use of the body like means of fight reconfigures the concept of sovereignty that previously Schmitt would develop like last form to justify the processes of expansion and preservation of life, all of this on the basis of the ideas of dominion and territorial property. Under this point, thinking in a corporal sovereignty would be able to result key to the hour to remaining an auto-immolation like mechanism of political protest, where the struggle is resulted of the dyad: Individual / Totalizing power; Individual / status quo and in last instance, of the Individual / state, in addition to understanding life and the death like ambits keys of the doxic struggle between them. This article talks about the act of the auto-immolation in his relation, to the corporal command, the symbolic aspect than there it happens and the re significance of the death like form of political protest. At the end of the article is defend the thesis of that the act of auto-immolation as such, it is configured like a tool of political advertising and act communicational that can generate an impact in the society, when this is exercised with a collective and concenctric.</p><p><strong>Keywords</strong>: self-immolation, political protest, sovereignty, politicization of death, altruism.</p>

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