scholarly journals Yogis, Ayurveda, and Kayakalpa

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-120
Author(s):  
Suzanne Newcombe
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Extreme Longevity ◽  
Indian Medicine ◽  
Health And Well Being

How should we read claims about health and well-being which defy common sense?  Are claims of extreme longevity to be viewed as fraudulent, or as pushing the boundaries of possibility for the human body?  This article will consider the narrative and context around a particularly well-publicized incident of rejuvenation therapy, advertised as kāyakalpa (body transformation or rejuvenation), from 1938. In this year, the prominent Congress Activist and co-founder of Banaras Hindu University, Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861–1946), underwent an extreme – and very public – rejuvenation treatment under the care of a sadhu using the name of Shriman Tapasviji (c.1770?-1955). The first half of the article will explore the presentation of Malaviya’s treatment and how it inspired a focus on rejuvenation therapy within Indian medicine in the years immediately following. Exploring this mid-twentieth century incident highlight some of the themes and concerns of the historical period, just out of living memory, but in many ways similar to our own.

scholarly journals THOSE DAYS AND THESE DAYS: AKIGA'S NARRATIVIZATION OF THE TIV NATION IN HISTORY OF THE TIV

Africa ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-610
Author(s):  
James Tar Tsaaior
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Creative Genius ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
Health And Well Being

ABSTRACTThis article pays tribute to Akiga Sai (1898–1959) and his iconic status as the first great Tiv writer who recorded Tiv history, customs, beliefs and experiences during the turbulence unleashed by colonization and missionary intervention in the early twentieth century. It offers an appreciation of Akiga's vivid writing style and his achievements as both a historian and a recorder of his people's way of life, which was fast changing. The article presents the perspective of a younger Tiv generation who encountered Akiga Sai's work in the course of their education. Akiga, from this viewpoint, is not only an individual pioneer and creative genius, but also the representative of a better era, after which moral decay and a decline in communal health and well-being set in.

scholarly journals Insanity and Imprisonment in British Guiana, 1814-1966

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Anderson ◽  
Kellie Moss ◽  
Estherine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Health And Well Being

This paper explores links between incarceration and enslavement, migration, and mental health, in the colony of British Guiana. Contemporaries recognised the negative impact that mobility and labour had on the health and well-being of enslaved persons and Asian immigrants, including on plantations. Understandings of ‘insanity’ later developed to bring ideas about biology, context, and behaviour into dialogue, including through the racialisation of its prevalence and character amongst the colony’s diverse population. Before the construction of separate institutions, people who were believed to be suffering from mental illness were sometimes kept in jails, and due to a lack of capacity this continued even after lunatic asylums were developed from the 1840s. At the same time, colonial administrators recognised that incarceration itself could cause mental ill-health, and as such into the early twentieth century British Guiana engaged with global debates about criminal insanity.

Physiological Measures of Wellness and Message Processing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kory Floyd ◽  
Corey A. Pavlich ◽  
Dana R. Dinsmore
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Social Influence ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Message Processing ◽  
Physiological Measures ◽  
Increase Life Expectancy ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
Health And Well Being

Research has shown that the expression of affection and other forms of prosocial communication between two or more people promotes wellness and has the potential to increase life expectancy. The human body contains multiple physiological subsystems that all contribute to the overall health and well-being of an individual; the simple act of engaging in prosocial communication has been shown to positively influence one’s health and well-being. The specific benefits of engaging in prosocial communication are not limited to one specific physiological subsystem; it is the pervasiveness of this benefit that is so important. The benefits of prosocial communication range from building the body’s defense systems to increasing the effectiveness of recovery; in essence, prosocial communication increases the body’s overall integrity and rejuvenating power. These benefits have been observed for a variety of prosocial behaviors, including the expression of affection, touch, social support and cohesion, and social influence. The health benefits of prosocial communication point to the importance of considering prosocial communication when designing health and risk messages.

scholarly journals Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Quick
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Domestic Science ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Scientific Objects ◽  
Science Movement ◽  
Health And Well Being

AbstractThe health and well-being of pets became a significant matter of medical and scientific concern during the first decades of the twentieth century. Addressing the case of dogs, this article contends that this circumstance was not primarily a consequence of developments internal to veterinary practice but rather emerged from the broader-based domestic-science movement. The elaboration of scientifically oriented approaches to dog care signals the incorporation of pets within a maternal ideal that emphasized care and efficiency as domestic virtues. Via consideration of canine milk foods, women-led canine medical institutions, canine-concerned domestic workers, and rationalist approaches to kennel design, the article demonstrates that dogs should be placed alongside such established objects of domestic scientific reform as children, homes, and human bodies. Moreover, it shows that scientific reconceptualizations of dogs relied on an extensive network of (primarily women) laborers that included food producers, nursing staff, kennel attendants, and breeders. The article thereby contributes to a growing body of scholarship highlighting ways in which the domestic-science movement forged new scientific objects and practices around the turn of the twentieth century. By the 1930s, dogs were routinely being upheld as exemplars of the kinds of homely existence made possible by scientifically informed approaches to domestic living.

scholarly journals Insanity and Imprisonment in British Guiana, 1814-1966

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Anderson ◽  
Kellie Moss ◽  
Estherine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asian Immigrants ◽  
Diverse Population ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Health And Well Being

This paper explores links between incarceration and enslavement, migration, and mental health, in the colony of British Guiana. Contemporaries recognised the negative impact that mobility and labour had on the health and well-being of enslaved persons and Asian immigrants, including on plantations. Understandings of ‘insanity’ later developed to bring ideas about biology, context, and behaviour into dialogue, including through the racialisation of its prevalence and character amongst the colony’s diverse population. Before the construction of separate institutions, people who were believed to be suffering from mental illness were sometimes kept in jails, and due to a lack of capacity this continued even after lunatic asylums were developed from the 1840s. At the same time, colonial administrators recognised that incarceration itself could cause mental ill-health, and as such into the early twentieth century British Guiana engaged with global debates about criminal insanity.

scholarly journals Activating Embodied Imagination During COVID-19: A Performative Reflexive Autoethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096247
Author(s):  
Mark B. DeGarmo
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Learning Sequence ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Socioeconomic Strata ◽  
Health And Well Being ◽  
Embodied Imagination

Embodied imagination is a learning theory that reverses the accepted Western “think first, then act” learning sequence though movement improvisation followed by reflection and reflective methods across verbal and nonverbal, including embodied-kinesthetic, modalities. Healing the Cartesian divide might have positive effects on world cultures and people across socioeconomic strata, especially urgent during the COVID-19 pandemic as multiple disruptions to daily life have quickly increased uncertainty and stress, compromising health and well-being, especially of traditionally marginalized excluded People of Color. Expanding the performative reflexive autoethnographic project through embodied imagination broadens and deepens this global, transcultural, transdisciplinary effort through the human body, traditionally not considered human thinking’s locus. Benefits across global societies include greater self-care, the ability to act effectively quickly in response to a world with exponentially increasing complexity, and awareness that creativity is a global communitarian human birthright, not a rarity relegated to exceptional people.

scholarly journals The Virtual Physiological Human

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter V. Coveney ◽  
Vanessa Diaz ◽  
Peter Hunter ◽  
Peter Kohl ◽  
Marco Viceconti
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health And Well Being

The Virtual Physiological Human is synonymous with a programme in computational biomedicine that aims to develop a framework of methods and technologies to investigate the human body as a whole. It is predicated on the transformational character of information technology, brought to bear on that most crucial of human concerns, our own health and well-being.

scholarly journals Mechanistic models of microbial community metabolism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian R. Dillard ◽  
Dawson D. Payne ◽  
Jason A. Papin
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Mechanistic Models ◽  
Community Metabolism ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Health And Well Being

Microbial communities affect many facets of human health and well-being. Naturally occurring bacteria, whether in nature or the human body, rarely exist in isolation.

scholarly journals Pprecaution measures and Vaccination from the Perspective of Islam

2021 ◽  
pp. 102-106
Author(s):  
Nisar Ahmad Akhgar
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Third ◽  
Sharia Law ◽  
Materials Used ◽  
Health And Well Being

According to the religion of Islam, man is obliged to take care of his health and never neglect his means of health and well-being; but to use them reasonably and correctly as much as possible. Prevention in Islam is more important than treatment and in terms of result is considered a kind of treatment. In this article, which briefly discusses the Sharia ruling on vaccination and prevention, we can generally say that in Sharia law the vaccine is permissible against any disease that is feared to be spread, and there is no difference between it and treatment. Of course, according to the nature of the materials used in vaccine ampoules and its drops, its ruling can be summarized in the following three ways. The first form is that the substances that are injected into the human body as a vaccine are permissible and Halal, in which case there is no problem in permitting it. The second case is that the substances from which the vaccine is made are Haram and harmful, however, because of mixing other materials into it and as a result of the transformation, the origin of the vaccine will be changed, and consequently, Sharia’s position will be also altered. And in some cases, on medical necessities, its use is unrestricted. The third case is that the materials used to make the vaccine are Haram and impure, and its probability of Harm is greater than its benefit, and doctors are skeptical about its usefulness and harmfulness, in which case it is clear that it is not impermissible to believe in its usefulness and to be sure of its sanctity.

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