scholarly journals Pu Songling’s Short-Story “Pupils’ Talk”

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Alexander G. Storozhuk
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Body Part ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Popular Medicine ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
New Variant ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Medical Treatises ◽  
Ming Fiction

The article covers the plot and translation peculiarities of the short-story by Pu Songling (蒲松齡, 1640–1715) “Pupils’ Talk”. The connection between Pu Songling’s ideas and tradition of Chinese popular medicine and Taoist concepts of soles and spirits of a human body is thoroughly analyzed; along with that the tradition of the story’s interpretation in Russian is also studied. The issue of special spirits inhabiting all organs and anatomical areas of a human has been thoroughly worked out in both parts of “Huang Di’s Inner Classic” as well as in “Huang ting Classic” and was a part of a common knowledge in traditional Chinese routine. Special medical treatises known as “Suishu” gave their own recipes of traditional medication combined with exorcism, and Pu Songling happened to be an author of such a treatise in two parts. Thus one has to admit that Pu Songling must be quite well acquainted with the tradition of Chinese folksy medicine based on the stated integrity of human physical organization with controlling spirits of each and every body-part. Therefore with the undeniable influence of Ming fiction on “Pupils’ Talk” one can’t help acknowledging that the descriptive means of expression as well as the chief idea of the story are authentic and independent. Taoist ideas about human anatomy and physiology can be met not only in this story, but in other pieces of the “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” (Liao Zhai zhi yi). Artistic peculiarities of the text as well as fundamentals of the translation are divisively demonstrated. A new variant of translation of the whole text is provided.

Case Studies in The Instruction of Human Anatomy and Physiology

HAPS Educator ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-515
Author(s):  
Chasity O’Malley ◽  
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Julie Doll ◽  
Catherine Taylor ◽  
Marian Leal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology

The Survival of the Physiologist: A Human Anatomy and Physiology Game

HAPS Educator ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Vicki Motz ◽  
Timothy Koneval ◽  
Jill Bennett-Toomey ◽  
Rema Suniga ◽  
Jacqueline Runestad Connour
Keyword(s):  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology

scholarly journals Introductory anatomy and physiology in an undergraduate nursing curriculum

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J. Brown ◽  
S. White ◽  
N. Power
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
High Achievers ◽  
First Year ◽  
Grade Point ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
High Achieving

Using an educational data mining approach, first-year academic achievement of undergraduate nursing students, which included two compulsory courses in introductory human anatomy and physiology, was compared with achievement in a final semester course that transitioned students into the workplace. We hypothesized that students could be grouped according to their first-year academic achievement using a two-step cluster analysis method and that grades achieved in the human anatomy and physiology courses would be strong predictors of overall achievement. One cohort that graduated in 2014 ( n = 105) and one that graduated in 2015 ( n = 94) were analyzed separately, and for both cohorts, two groups were identified, these being “high achievers” (HIGH) and “low achievers” (LOW). Consistently, the anatomy and physiology courses were the strongest predictors of group assignment, such that a good grade in these was much more likely to put a student into a high-achieving group. Students in the HIGH groups also scored higher in the Transition to Nursing course when compared with students in the LOW groups. The higher predictor importance of the anatomy and physiology courses suggested that if a first-year grade-point average was calculated for students, an increased weighting should be attributed to these courses. Identifying high-achieving students based on first-year academic scores may be a useful method to predict future academic performance.

The Influence of Evolution upon the Functional Development of the Lateral Wall of the Nose

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-57
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Smersh
Keyword(s):  
Critical Role ◽  
Lateral Wall ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Functional Development ◽  
Human Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Nasal Disease ◽  
Insight Into

The nose has played a surprisingly critical role repeatedly in adaptation and survival of the vertebrate family line, in olfaction to detect food and predators, in respiration in adaptation to terrestrial existence, and in preservation of homeostasis in severe climatic changes as in the great ice ages that destroyed the giant reptiles. Most importantly to us, the study of evolutionary development will provide insight into human anatomy and physiology and is an aid in the management of medical and surgical treatment of nasal disease.

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