“Bodies Drilled in Freedom”: Nudity, Body Culture, and Classical Gymnastics at the Early Bauhaus

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ute Ackermann
Keyword(s):  
Body Culture

Evaluation and Review of Sport in the Context of Current Social Trends

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-23
Author(s):  
Dragan Koković
Keyword(s):  
General Level ◽  
Physical Culture ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Reasonable Use

AbstractGeneral level of culture does not mean that everyone is expected to become, for example, a writer, an artist, a poet, an actor or a painter but it assumes enabling people to enjoy culture and arts, and expand the range of possible enjoyments in life and the world. Likewise, introduction of children, boys and girls into the world of body culture should enrich them in this regard. Ethical and moral changes will significantly change the form of physical culture and education, and the sports life in general. Aggressiveness, false prestige, self‐centredness, foul motive of achievement will be found under review. There may come a time when the sports victory will be considered and respected primarily as a result of successful mastering the strengths of one's own nature and their reasonable use. Any violence against one's own body will be considered as educational and sports misfortune or accident, as something that belongs to the ethical despise and not to the established and existing ethical norms.

Reviews

Screen Bodies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Tru Leverette ◽  
Barbara Mennel
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Art School

Zélie Asava. Mixed Race Cinemas: Multiracial Dynamics in America and France (New York Bloomsbury, 2017). 216 pp., ISBN: 1501312456 (paperback: $35.96)Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rössler, eds. Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School (New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019). xl + 345 pp., ISBN: 9781501344787 (hardback, $110), (paperback, $29.95)

scholarly journals 157. patient to Environment Transmission of Multidrug-resistant Bacteria Within Intensive Care Units

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S207-S208
Author(s):  
Matthew J Ziegler ◽  
Brendan Kelly ◽  
Michael Z David ◽  
Lauren Dutcher ◽  
Pam C Tolomeo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Multidrug Resistant ◽  
Resistant Bacteria ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase ◽  
Environmental Transmission ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Clinical Culture ◽  
Multiple Time Points

Abstract Background Identifying risk factors for environmental contamination with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) is essential to prioritize methods for prevention of hospital transmission. Methods Patients admitted to an ICU with an MDRO detected on clinical culture in the prior 30 days were enrolled. Patients (4 body sites) and high-touch objects (HTO) (3 composite sites) in ICU rooms were sampled. Environmental transmission was defined by shared MDRO species cultured on patient and HTO cultures obtained on multiple time points during the patient’s stay. Risk factors for environmental transmission were identified with logistic regression. Results Forty-five patients were included (median 2 days of longitudinal sampling [IQR 1–4 days]). Enrollment anatomic cultures included extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBLE) (n=12, 27%), carbapenem-resistant organisms (CRO) (n=4, 9%), methicillin-resistant S.aureus (MRSA) (n=11, 24%), vancomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE) (n=4, 9%), and C.difficile (CDIFF) (n=14, 31%). Patient colonization during serial sampling was common with CRO (n=21, 47%), ESBLE (n=16, 36%), and VRE (n=16, 36%) and less so with MRSA (n=7, 16%) and CDIFF (n=5, 11%). Detection of MDROs on environmental surfaces was also common with identification of CRO in 47% of patient rooms (n=21) and ESBLE in 29% (n=13); MRSA (n=2, 4%), VRE (n=9, 20%), and CDIFF (n=3, 7%) were rarer. Patient to environment transmission was observed in 40% of rooms (n=18). Thirteen (29%) rooms had foreign MDRO contamination (i.e., one not detected on a body culture), most (n=10) with CRO. Environmental MDROs were most common in bathroom/sinks (n=22), followed by surfaces near the patient (n=10), and least common surfaces often touched by staff within the room (n=6). On multivariable logistic regression, naïve to clustering by patient, recent receipt of a proton pump inhibitor (OR 2.35, 95% CI 1.00 – 5.52, P=0.049) and presence of one or more wounds (OR 2.56, 95% CI 1.05 – 6.26, P=0.038) were significantly associated with environmental transmission (OR 1.56, 95% CI 1.01 – 2.43, P=0.046) (Table 1). Conclusion MDRO contamination of patient rooms is common with detection of organisms attributed to, and foreign to, the occupant. Disclosures Michael Z. David, MD PhD, GSK (Consultant)

scholarly journals Compartmentalized embryoid body culture for induction of spatially patterned differentiation

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 041101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shohei Kaneda ◽  
Jiro Kawada ◽  
Hidenori Akutsu ◽  
Justin Ichida ◽  
Yoshiho Ikeuchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Embryoid Body ◽  
Body Culture

Pain Among Professional Orchestral Musicians: A Case Study in Body Culture and Health Psychology

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 124-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lotte Nygaard Andersen ◽  
Kirsten K Roessler ◽  
Henning Eichberg
Keyword(s):  
Elite Athletes ◽  
Professional Musicians ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Configurational Analysis ◽  
Culture And Health ◽  
Potential Damage ◽  
Orchestral Musicians ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Experience Pain

BACKGROUND: Professional musicians experience high rates of musculoskeletal pain, but only few studies have investigated how this pain is accepted by musicians. AIM: To investigate the culture of pain and to explore how professional musicians experience and cope with pain. METHODS: Ten semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted; 8 with musicians and 2 with professional elite athletes. In addition, a concert and two rehearsals were observed. The audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim. Configurational analysis was used to interpret the material as a whole. RESULTS: Musicians often experience pain as a consequence of prolonged repetitive work early in their career. Such pain is compounded by the lack of breaks during concerts and rehearsals. Orchestras seldom give opportunities for adjustments required for individual instruments, breaks, or action to prevent pain. Musicians' strong sense of coherence and the experience of pain as integral to their identity have encouraged musicians to develop flexible coping strategies. Ignoring pain and potential damage is an accepted concomitant to striving for perfection. A musician does not focus on pain but on the music. CONCLUSION: For the musician, pain has a significance beyond being something that can simply be removed by a practitioner. Pain tells both an individual story and a cultural story that is crying out to be heard.

“Body Culture”

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Konstantina Gongaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Body Culture ◽  
Personal Recognition ◽  
Complete Form ◽  
Organization Framework ◽  
Education Tool ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
The Individual

“Body culture,” a modern term in Western Europe, owes its philosophical content to ancient Greece and especially to Olympia. Altis turned out to be a creative place for presence and mixture of cultural elements of a set of people that through this exchange of ideas gradually conquered its first characteristics as a nation. Philosophically, the ideology that was cultivated formed the reflection of the deepest background position which the classical culture identified with coexistence of the opposites. The physical perfection of the Olympic model was reflected in art as the symmetry of Kouros, with a transcendent and spiritual dimension, idealizing the human body. The Olympic athlete reflects harmony and symmetry, the most complete form of the perfect citizen, the concept of moral beauty, as it is defined by Plato and Aristotle. But sport that is provided by the school in Greece today, instead of being an integral part of mainstream education, as it was in antiquity, represents a compressed and therefore inadequate education tool. Sport in Greek schools operates within an oppressive organization framework that is basically imposed because of competition. As a result, the final aim of sports “education” is to teach discipline and physical efficiency with the view to ultimately promoting an organized performance industry. But this obsession, about wanting to be first, in addition to being a source of personal stress, only achieves is to develop the student's personality with competition as the prevailing principle. Moreover, this pursuit of personal affirmation through sports ranking depreciates personal value and the individual as a whole, whilst breeding insecurity and the need for personal recognition through unsafe means. What's more important, instead of being the best tool for bearing social life and reducing egocentric subjectivity, it inflates egocentrism and creates human beings susceptible to individualism. In this way, a type of “one-dimensional man” is cultivated, which Marcuse describes as the most dangerous of all because it destroys society's cohesion by deconstructing man's perception of coexistence.

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