Addiction to medical aesthetic procedures

2018 ◽  
Vol XIV ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Jolanta Kozaczyńska
Keyword(s):  
Social Functioning ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Common Phenomenon ◽  
Aesthetic Medicine ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
The Media ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Aesthetic Procedures

Today’s media disseminate a narcissistic cultivation of beauty and promote a focus mainly on appearance and satisfaction from its improvement. The human body assumes a form in the media that is often impossible to achieve without surgical intervention. When people are in frequent contact with a utopian vision of the perfect body, this can lead to many disorders in both social functioning and self-perception. In extreme cases, striving to preserve beauty and youth may lead to an addiction to aesthetic medicine treatments. It is an increasingly common phenomenon. People who are addicted to treatments improving their beauty or changing their body shapes are not aware of the problem that affects them. They lose their rational judgement and their assessment is far from the opinions of people around them and socially accepted norms. All signs of concern from others are perceived as an attack on their independence and this further deepens their sense of loneliness and isolation from society. With time, undergoing further beautifying procedures becomes the only way they know to achieve a momentary sense of happiness.

scholarly journals BodyNet: Volumetric Inference of 3D Human Body Shapes

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Varol ◽  
Duygu Ceylan ◽  
Bryan Russell ◽  
Jimei Yang ◽  
Ersin Yumer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Shapes

scholarly journals Inside Humans: Creating a Simple Layered Anatomical Model from Human Surface Scans

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Komaritzan ◽  
Stephan Wenninger ◽  
Mario Botsch
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Computer Animation ◽  
Physical Simulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Body Shapes ◽  
Surface Scan ◽  
Morphable Models ◽  
Muscle Models

3D morphable models are widely used to describe the variation of human body shapes. However, these models typically focus on the surface of the human body, since the acquisition of the volumetric interior would require prohibitive medical imaging. In this paper we present a novel approach for creating a volumetric body template and for fitting this template to the surface scan of a person in a just a few seconds. The body model is composed of three surface layers for bones, muscles, and skin, which enclose the volumetric muscle and fat tissue in between them. Our approach includes a data-driven method for estimating the amount of muscle mass and fat mass from a surface scan, which provides more accurate fits to the variety of human body shapes compared to previous approaches. We also show how to efficiently embed fine-scale anatomical details, such as high resolution skeleton and muscle models, into the layered fit of a person. Our model can be used for physical simulation, statistical analysis, and anatomical visualization in computer animation and medical applications, which we demonstrate on several examples.

scholarly journals PSYCHOTHERAPY DURING COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Ф. Ермошин
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Beneficial Effect ◽  
Viral Infection ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Active Life ◽  
The Media

Психотерапевтическая помощь человеку важна на всех этапах его жизни в условиях пандемии. Впечатленность человека пугающей информацией, поступившей от СМИ, ведёт, в ряде случаев, к формированию ковидофобии. Недооценка опасности заболевания может вести к отрицанию существования вируса и отказу от вакцинации. Если встреча организма человека с вирусом все же состоялась, важна настройка психики на содействие работе иммунитета. После перенесенной инфекции актуальна отработка последствий болезни как в части полученных страшных впечатлений, связанных с болезнью, с пребыванием в ковидном госпитале и др., так и поддержка в возвращении человека к активной жизни. Отдельно стоит помощь людям, потерявшим близких. Разбираем некоторые аспекты этой комплексной работы, прописываем конкретные алгоритмы помощи в перечисленных ситуациях методом психокатализа. Один выводов работы: индуцированное психотерапией снижение уровня стресса, формирование благого ожидания, связанного с работой иммунитета, благотворно действует на здоровье пациентов. В случае вирусного заражения способствует более быстрому и с меньшими осложнениями преодолению болезни и может рекомендоваться как важное вспомогательное средство профилактики и лечения коронавирусной и других видов инфекции. Psychotherapeutic assistance to a person is important at all stages of his life in a pandemic. A person's impression of frightening information from the media leads, in some cases, to the formation of covidophobia. Underestimating the danger of the disease can lead to denial of the existence of the virus and refusal to vaccinate. If the meeting of the human body with the virus did take place, it is important to tune the psyche to promote the work of immunity. After infection, it is important to work out the consequences of the disease, both in terms of the received terrible impressions associated with the disease, with a stay in a covid hospital, etc., as well as support in returning a person to an active life. The help to people who have lost loved ones could be very important as well. We analyze some aspects of this complex work, prescribe specific algorithms for helping in the listed situations using the method of psychocatalysis. One of the conclusions of the work: psychotherapy-induced stress reduction, the formation of a good expectation associated with the work of the immune system, has a beneficial effect on the health of patients. In the case of viral infection, it helps to overcome the disease more quickly and with less complications and can be recommended as an important auxiliary means of preventing and treating coronavirus and other types of infection.

Gender Recognition Using 3-D Human Body Shapes

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 898-908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jinshan Tang ◽  
Xiaoming Liu ◽  
Huaining Cheng ◽  
Kathleen M. Robinette
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Gender Recognition ◽  
Body Shapes

scholarly journals Media Exchange Performance Test Using the Bradford Assay in an Automated Bioreactor Engineering Model for Space Experiments

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Jong-Won Lee ◽  
Kyoung-Bong Ha ◽  
Youn-Kyu Kim ◽  
Joo-Hee Lee ◽  
In-Ho Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Performance Test ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Space Environment ◽  
Engineering Model ◽  
Exchange Performance ◽  
Space Experiments ◽  
The Media ◽  
Bradford Assay

Life science research has been actively carried out in space for a long time using bioreactor equipment, in anticipation of manned space exploration and space tourism. Such studies have reported that the microgravity environment has a negative effect on the human body, including the musculoskeletal system, nervous system, and endocrine system. Bone loss and muscular atrophy are issues that need to be resolved before long-term exposure of the human body to a space environment. To address this problem, Y. K. Kim et al. designed a system in 2015 and performed an evaluation of an automated bioreactor development model (DM) for space experiments. In this study, we developed an automated bioreactor engineering model (EM) based on the previous literature, and conducted media exchange performance testing using the Bradford assay. We used a novel method that allowed quantitative assessment of the media exchange rate versus the conventional assessment method using visual observation with a camera. By measuring the media exchange rate of the automated bioreactor EM, we attempted to verify applicability for the system for space experiments. We expect that the experimental method proposed in this study is useful for logical determination of liquid exchange or circulation in different closed systems.

Reanimating the Body in Conceptual Metaphor Theory

2019 ◽  
pp. 18-46
Author(s):  
Elisabeth El Refaie
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽  
Metaphor Theory ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Body Shapes

This chapter critically reviews the traditional notion of embodiment in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), arguing that it is characterized by a somewhat inflexible view of the way the human body shapes one’s thinking. Probing more recent developments in CMT, including dynamic systems approaches and cross-cultural studies of metaphor, and confronting these with key theories from phenomenology, psychology, social semiotics, and media theory, the original notion of dynamic embodiment is developed. Accordingly, the degree to which people draw on their own bodies when producing and interpreting metaphors depends not only on the cultural practices and the specific actions in which they are engaged at any given moment, but also on the degree to which they are consciously aware of their physicality, as well as the affordances of the modes and media they are using to communicate.

Divergent Channels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nixon Administration ◽  
White House ◽  
Frequent Contact ◽  
Honest Broker ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policy Perceptions

Although Nixon and Kissinger superimposed a Cold War distortion on a regional situation, tried to spin stories in the media, and allowed personal biases to flavor their responses, they responded logically and perhaps justifiably when seen in the broader context of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nixon administration steadily escalated diplomatic signals, and the top policymakers sincerely believed that India had launched external aggression—not Pakistan—with its support for Mukthi Bahini (liberation force) raids into what was then East Pakistan. Several additional themes run through Nixon and Kissinger’s response to the Indo-Pakistani War, many of which were also reflected in U.S.-Soviet back-channel communications and in the taped conversations. Not surprisingly, Nixon’s and Kissinger’s policy perceptions were clearly colored by their personal experiences with Indira Gandhi and Yahya Khan. The White House was unwilling to dismiss Yahya’s role as an honest broker in Sino-American rapprochement and likewise saw duplicity on the part of Indira Gandhi after she visited Washington, D.C., in early November 1971 and claimed that India had no desire for war with Pakistan. In addition, the surreptitiously recorded conversations between the president and his advisors are rife with gendered speech and appeals to masculine “toughness” that colored Nixon’s actions. Significantly, the frequent contact with the Soviets during the war mitigates some of the criticism of recklessness.

scholarly journals Large Bowel Endometriosis Mimicking Colorectal Cancer

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Laís Marques Mota ◽  
Bruno Salomão Hirsch ◽  
Renato Seligman
Keyword(s):  
Colorectal Cancer ◽  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Large Bowel ◽  
Surgical Intervention ◽  
Endometrial Tissue ◽  
Differential Diagnoses ◽  
Diagnostic Challenge ◽  
Female Population ◽  
Bowel Endometriosis

Endometriosis is characterized by the presence of endometrial tissue outside the uterus, with 1–7% prevalence in the female population. It is observed in various locations of the human body, and large bowel endometriosis is the most common extrapelvic site, affecting about 5 to 12% of all women who present endometriosis. This study aimed to report an interesting images related to stenosing large bowel endometriosis that was possible to be diagnosed only by surgical intervention. Hence, this pathology is a diagnostic challenge and should be remembered between differential diagnoses of nonspecific or even alarming symptoms of the gastrointestinal tract.

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