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Leszek Koczanowicz's book explores the emancipatory power of the human body in everyday life, examining its potential for liberation within societal structures. The work delves into the philosophical and cultural implications of artificial intelligence, questioning the reduction of human experience to language models and advocating for a more holistic understanding of human existence that incorporates both thought and action. Through a critique of dualistic theories, the text situates the body as central to human identity and societal change. Intended for an audience interested in philosophy, cultural studies, and the impact of technology on society, the book challenges the dominance of disembodied perspectives and emphasizes the active, corporeal nature of human beings.

Philosophy --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Social sciences (general) --- Sociology --- sociologie --- politieke filosofie --- sociale filosofie --- sociale wetenschappen --- Human body. --- Social change. --- Human body --- Social change

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This book covers the changes in musculoskeletal, neurological and cardiopulmonary systems, which are the three pillars of human movement. It examines the causes, processes, consequences, and contexts of physical activity from different perspectives and in different life stages including early childhood to elderly. It goes on to further explain how purposeful movement of the human body is affected by pathological conditions related to any of these major systems. Coverage also includes external and internal factors (such as forces and other stresses) that affect the human growth pattern and development, and throughout lifespan (embryo, child, adult, and geriatrics). The perfect reference for researchers of kinesiology as well as clinicians and students involved in rehabilitation practice. --

Kinesiology. --- Kinesiology, Applied. --- Movement Disorders --- physiopathology. --- Kinesiology, Applied --- physiopathology --- Kinesiology --- Human body

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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the American nudist movement. While countless Americans had long enjoyed the pleasures of skinny dipping or nude sunbathing, nudists were the first to organize a movement around the idea that exposing the body corrected the ills of modern society and produced profound benefits for the body as well as the mind. Despite hostility and skepticism, American nudists enlisted the support of health enthusiasts, homemakers, sex radicals, and even ministers, and in the process, redefined what could be seen, experienced, and consumed in twentieth-century America. Naked gives a vibrant, detailed account of the American nudist movement and the larger cultural phenomenon of public nudity in the United States. Brian S. Hoffman reflects on the idea of nakedness itself in the context of a culture that wrestles with an inherent sense of shame and conflicting moral attitudes about the body. In exploring the social and legal history of nudism, Hoffman reveals how anxieties about gender, race, sexuality, and age inform our conceptions of nakedness. The book traces the debates about distinguishing deviant sexualities from morally acceptable display, the legal processes that helped bring about the dramatic changes in sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the explosion in eroticism that has increasingly defined the modern American consumer economy. Drawing on a colorful collection of nudist materials, films, and magazines, Naked exposes the social, cultural, and moral assumptions about nakedness and the body normally hidden from view and behind closed doors.--Book jacket.

Social sciences (general) --- Human Body --- Nudism --- history. --- Social aspects --- History. --- USA. --- United States.

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The Developing Microbiome: Lessons from Early Life focuses on the establishment of the microbiome in early life, exposing it as a key mediator of diseases and health throughout the lifecycle. The content presents a comprehensive view of the status of the field and draws real-world correlations to health and disease states. It collates the significant research being done in the pediatric microbiome research space and bridges the knowledge gap showing the factors that impact health and disease states throughout the lifecycle. Finally, it offers knowledge on how the microbiome is and can be manipulated to promote change. This is a perfect reference for both researchers and clinical scientists who are interested in the role of the infant microbiome in health and disease, as well as gastroenterologists and pediatricians looking to affect change in their patients.

Bacteria --- Pathogenic microorganisms. --- Microorganisms. --- Human body --- Molecular microbiology. --- Infants. --- Pediatrics. --- Mothers. --- Medical microbiology. --- Microbiology. --- Bacteria. --- Infant. --- Health aspects. --- pathogenicity --- pathogenicity.

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays, containing chapters from specialists in history, art history, medical history, and literature, examines how the intimately familiar language of the body served as a convenient medium through which to imagine and describe transformations of the larger world, both for the better and also for the worse. Its individual contributors demonstrate the myriad ways in which rethinking the human body was one way to approach rethinking the social, political, and religious realities of the world from the Middle Ages until the early modern period.

Christian theology --- Human physiology --- Iconography --- Thematology --- tear [secretion] --- blood [animal material] --- crying [weeping] --- anno 500-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- Europe --- Human body --- Human body in literature --- Human figure in art --- Human body in literature. --- Symbolic aspects. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Body image --- Human anatomy --- Mind and body --- Human body in art --- Art --- Composition (Art) --- Figurative art --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Figure drawing --- Figure painting --- Symbolic aspects of the human body --- Symbolism --- Blood. --- bodily humours. --- corporeality. --- devotion. --- emotions. --- tears. --- crying --- lichaam (van de mens)