scholarly journals Andine kropsopfattelser. Relationer mellem aymaras kropsbegreb og sundhedssystem

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Bech Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medical System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Different Sources

The Aymara of Bolivia have different ways of healing their illnesses and use different sources of knowledge in the health system. According to their traditional practice they tend to start curing on a home basis using their own knowledge and experience. Otherwise they may consult the local “curanderos” who exercise different abilities. Resorting to the official medical system is rare. Apart from a specific knowledge of the effects of plants, minerals, and animal ingredients it is shown that their concept of the body influences the choice of healers and healing methods. The body concept is essentially a concept of balancing body liquids and the relation between body and nature. The latter gives evidence to talking about cultural embodiment and using the body as a metaphor of the Andean society.

Concepts in Development

2013 ◽  
pp. 541-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan A. Gelman
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Psychology ◽  
Qualitative Change ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Domain Specific Knowledge ◽  
Growth And Change ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter addresses what children’s concepts reveal about classic debates in developmental psychology. It is argued that throughout development, concepts are multifaceted, reflecting their varied functions. As a result, children’s concepts (a) are early emerging but undergo qualitative change, (b) obey domain-general principles yet are embedded in domain-specific knowledge structures, (c) are actively constructed but deeply informed by input, (d) are flexible but constrained, and (e) include both statistics and theory. The interplay between different levels of analysis, different sources of knowledge, and different developmental processes may itself provide an important engine for conceptual growth and change.

Scientific aspect on Diet explained by Susrutha in Wound Healing

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manoj Kumar ◽  
Amareshappa . ◽  
Anjali Bharadwaj ◽  
Shailaja S. V.
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Mineral Metabolism ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Surgical Techniques ◽  
The Body ◽  
Wound Healing Process ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Different Sources ◽  
Scientific Aspect ◽  
Important Branch

Wound healing has been the burning problem in a surgical practice because of a remarkable increase in the number of traumatic cases. A wound causes a number of changes in the body that can affect the healing process, including changes in energy, protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamin and mineral metabolism. Various Ayurveda literatures, particularly, Sushruta Samhita, which is said to be an ancient textbook of surgery in Ayurveda, has mentioned about the diet for the person suffering from the wound, and the author said that diet plays a very important role in the wound healing process. Sushruta - The father of surgery has scientifically classified it in a systemic manner, whose wealth of clinical material and the principles of management are valid even today. Shalya Tantra (surgical branch in Ayurveda Science) is one of the important branch of Ayurveda, in which surgical and para-surgical techniques has described for management of various diseases. Vrana is the most important and widely described chapter of Shalya Tantra. Vrana (wound) is one of them, which have been managed by human being from starting of civilization. Under the circumstances, the first thing which the men came across was the injury from different sources which caused him the Vrana. Vrana is seen as debilitating and scaring disorder, usually seen affecting the human being at any age. Well balanced nutrition plays an essential role in the wound healing.

Sophistication of Body Concept in Process-Reactive Schizophrenia

1971 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-570
Author(s):  
Robert Cancro
Keyword(s):  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
The Body ◽  
Psychological Differentiation ◽  
Drug Ingestion ◽  
Underlying Basis ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Degree Of Differentiation ◽  
The Relationship

The underlying basis for the process-reactive classification is unclear, although some authors offer differences in psychological differentiation as an explanation. This study examined the relationship between the degree of differentiation of the body concept and the process-reactive continuum, which was measured by the Prognostic Rating Scale and the subsequent total number of nights of hospitalization over a 3-yr. period for 51 Ss. There was no significant relationship—linear or curvilinear—between these variables in this sample of acute schizophrenics in whom drug ingestion, chronicity, and length of current hospitalization were controlled.

Toward a Trans* Method in Musicology

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Baitz
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Musical Structures ◽  
New Materialisms ◽  
Way Of Knowing ◽  
Material Conditions

This chapter shows that the methods used to approach queer musical subjects cannot adequately account for transsexual ones. To show this, I distinguish queer methods from transsexual methods, while acknowledging a continuum between those extremes. Queer aesthetic and interpretive models highlight a transcending of bodily and other material structures; transsexuality invests in the body. Transsexual studies situate embodiment and material conditions as primary sources of knowledge (or forms of “counterknowledge”), thereby providing new ways for musicologists to consider the meaning that musical structures hold. Likewise, transsexual artists become legible within musicology through an application of transsexual studies (notably including phenomenology and new materialisms) to music. Ultimately, by integrating transsexual epistemologies with queer ones, a new way of knowing music (a “trans* method”) is suggested.

scholarly journals The experience of care partners of patients with Parkinson’s disease psychosis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248968
Author(s):  
Sneha Mantri ◽  
Emily Klawson ◽  
Steven Albert ◽  
Robyn Rapoport ◽  
Chelle Precht ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Medical System ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Experience Of Care ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Care Partners

Background Parkinson’s disease psychosis (PDP) has a major impact on quality of life and care partner burden; however, little is known about the lived experiences of care partners in managing PDP. Objective To understand how care partners of individuals with PDP experience their role and articulate their needs related to psychosis. Methods This was a qualitative study of semi-structured telephone interviews. Recruitment was conducted online via the clinical study matching tool, Fox Trial Finder; study activities took place remotely via telephone interviews. Transcripts of the phone interviews were analyzed by grounded theory methods, and a codebook of key themes that emerged from the analysis was developed. Results Nine care partners (all female) were interviewed. Discussion topics in the codebook included (1) care partner burden and guilt; (2) communication with medical professionals; (3) coping strategies; (4) emotional reactions of the care partner to psychosis; (5) sources of knowledge about PD psychosis; (6) attitudes towards medications for PDP; (7) strategies to care for loved ones with psychosis; (8) psychosis triggers. Conclusions This qualitative analysis uncovers important aspects of the care partner experience, including challenges in navigating the medical system and communicating with professionals. Providers treating patients with PDP should be aware of these constraints and provide added support for strained care partners.

The dominant N gene in New Zealand Romney sheep

1955 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 725 ◽  
Author(s):  
FW Dry
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Small Area ◽  
Genetic Basis ◽  
Dominant Gene ◽  
The Body ◽  
N Gene ◽  
Extreme Variation ◽  
Ram Lambs ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Sources

The existence of the dominant N gene, derived from two different sources, has been established by monogenic ratios. The gene is variable in expression in the heterozygote, and is pleiotropic. Horns are a sex-influenced expression of this gene, being dominant in males and recessive in females, with exceptions of the order of one in 10 in both sexes. There are hints that the exceptions in rams have a genetic basis, and strong evidence that this is so in heterozygous ewes, a dominant gene, F, variable in expression, being postulated. In the birthcoat of heterozygotes the expression of the N gene varies over a range as wide as is possible. There is extreme variation in halo-coverage over the body in animals of N-abundance on the back, and all halo-grades, from borderline-N to no-halo, are found in the one-sixth of heterozygotes less than N-grade. There is evidence that some part in causing the heterozygote to be less than N-grade is played by genes which reduce the abundance of halo-hairs on the main area of the body in non-N lambs. Possibly one dominigene, not linked with N, is powerful in the heterozygote. Heterozygous dominant N-grade lambs, with very few exceptions, can be distinguished from homozygotes in having halo-hair abundance reduced below that of N-grade at the anterior end of the body, at least in a small area behind the shoulder which is called the shoulder patch. The absence of the shoulder patch in heterozygotes has a genetic basis. Very occasionally there appears to be overlap between the two genotypes in the opposite direction. Recently a very small number of lambs thought to be homozygotes have been a little short of full halo-hair abundance on the shoulder patch on either one or both sides of the body. It is also of some help in distinguishing the genotypes that homozygous ram lambs have lumps in the horn positions, while heterozygous ram lambs frequently have no lumps at birth. On the average homozygous fleeces are more coarsely hairy than heterozygous, and contain more secondary kemp. In setting out the facts from which the above circle of conclusions is drawn it is sometimes convenient to make use at an earlier stage of something which is not proved until later. This applies especially to distinguishing homozygote and heterozygote.

scholarly journals The Role of Experience and Different Sources of Knowledge in Shaping Flood Risk Awareness

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Mondino ◽  
Anna Scolobig ◽  
Marco Borga ◽  
Giuliano Di Baldassarre
Keyword(s):  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flash Flood ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Risk Awareness ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Risk Management Process ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Different Sources

Understanding what makes people vulnerable to flooding is key in informing the risk management process. Non-structural measures, such as risk communication, can reduce vulnerability by improving flood risk awareness, but they require a deep understanding of which factors influence risk awareness, and how. We analysed and untangled the role of experience with, and knowledge of, floods by conducting a survey in a municipality in North-eastern Italy that was hit by a flash flood in 2018. The results show that previous experience with floods influences risk awareness not only directly, but also indirectly through the knowledge that was gained from that experience. In addition, specific (as opposed to generic) definitions of experience have been found to be better suited for exploring their effects on risk awareness. Based on the literature and on our results, we propose an experience-knowledge typology to help unravel the complex role that these two variables play in shaping flood risk awareness.

Relationship between Perceived Somatotype and Body Cathexis of College Males

1982 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 983-989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry A. Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Body Satisfaction ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Male Population ◽  
College Males ◽  
Body Build ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Body Cathexis

The primary purpose of this study was to determine if males grouped according to self-perceived somatotype differ significantly in body concept, while a subordinate purpose was to identify the perceived somatotype response trends of a college male population. The Perceived Somatotype Scale and the Body Cathexis Scale were administered to 88 male undergraduates, and the data were analyzed by multiple regression. The somatotype the males perceived as their own, and the body build perceived as ideal accounted for 27.9% and 4.3% of the variance in body-cathexis scores, respectively. A measure of discrepancy between the perceived somatotype-self and ideal indices accounted for 22.7% of the variance in the criterion. As self-perception of somatotype deviates from mesomorphic and moves toward the ectomorphic and endomorphic poles, especially the latter, self-concept relative to the body tends to decline rapidly. Moreover, males who perceive their physiques differ from their perceived ideals tend to report significantly less body satisfaction than those who perceive no such discrepancy.

scholarly journals Ethnobotany in Intermedical Spaces: The Case of the Fulni-ô Indians (Northeastern Brazil)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Taboada Soldati ◽  
Ulysses Paulino de Albuquerque
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Data ◽  
Medical System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Northeastern Brazil ◽  
Important Species ◽  
Cultural Sustainability ◽  
Botanical Knowledge ◽  
Therapeutic Uses ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Traditional Botanical Knowledge

We analyzed the Fulni-ô medical system and introduced its intermedical character based on secondary data published in the literature. Then we focused on the medicinal plants known to the ethnic group, describing the most important species, their therapeutic uses and the body systems attributed to them. We based this analysis on the field experience of the authors in the project Studies for the Environmental and Cultural Sustainability of the Fulni-ô Medical System: Office of Medicinal Plant Care. This traditional botanical knowledge was used to corroborate the hybrid nature of local practices for access to health. We show that intermedicality is a result not only of the meeting of the Fulni-ô medical system with Biomedicine but also of its meeting with other traditional systems. Finally, we discuss how traditional botanical knowledge may be directly related to the ethnogenesis process led by the Fulni-ô Indians in northeastern Brazil.

scholarly journals The Role of Phlebotomy (Fasd) and Wet Cupping (Hijamat) to Manage Dizziness and Vertigo From the Viewpoint of Persian Medicine

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholamreza Kordafshari ◽  
Mohammad Reza Shams Ardakani ◽  
Mansoor Keshavarz ◽  
Mohammad Mehdi Esfahani ◽  
Esmaeil Nazem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Side Effects ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mechanism Of Action ◽  
Economic Burden ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Pharmacological Therapy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Full Control ◽  
Persian Medicine

Dizziness and vertigo are the most common complaints of patients that has a high economic burden on the health system. In modern medicine, treatment for dizziness and vertigo consists of chemical pharmacological therapy. Although these drugs are useful in controlling the disease, their side effects and inefficiency in full control of the disease require the use of complementary medicine in this field. Persian medicine consists of valuable experiences of Persian medicine scholars based on the theory of humors and temperaments. In Persian medicine, 2 types of disease are presented: dizziness ( sadar) and vertigo ( dovar). Persian medicine physicians expressed a different mechanism of action than modern medicine for these diseases. They believed that accumulation of abnormal humors, reeh (normal bloating) or causative pathologic substances, is the basic cause of sadar and dovar and that the most important treatment is cleansing the body, particularly the head from accumulated substances by bloodletting methods.

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