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The significance of our physical bodies is an important topic in contemporary philosophy and theology. Reflection on the body often assumes, even if only implicitly, idealizations that obscure important facts about what it means for humans to be 'enfleshed.' This Element explores a number of ways that reflection on bodies in their concrete particularities is important. It begins with a consideration of why certain forms of idealization are philosophically problematic. It then explores how a number of features of bodies can reveal important truths about human nature, embodiment, and dependence. Careful reflection on the body raises important questions related to community and interdependence. The Element concludes by exploring the ethical demands we face given human embodiment. Among other results, this Element exposes the reader to a wide diversity of human embodiment and the nature of human dependence, encouraging meaningful theological reflection on aspects of the human condition.

Human body (Philosophy)

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"Philosopher and physician Drew Leder shows how a phenomenology of lived embodiment reveals a series of healing strategies available in the face of the bodily breakdowns and challenges that are a part of the human condition"--

Human body (Philosophy) --- Medicine --- Aging

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The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their efforts form the subject of this book.Each chapter is devoted to a single, central concept—the natural, the pictorial, the institutional, and the fictional—that viewers have used to make sense of what they see. Each concept, in turn, is tied to the work and methods of a particular kind of historical observer: the natural historian (Ray L. Birdwhistell), the aesthete or pictorialist (Victor O. Freeburg), the anthropologist of institutions (Hortense Powdermaker), and the critic of fiction (V. F. Perkins). All of these researchers have their own interests and criteria of understanding, ranging from a microscopic look at gestures to a broad view of characters. Using a combination of critical history, biography, and formal analysis, The Human Figure on Film offers a fresh approach to the problem of figuration in an age of digital cinema. It is, at once, a cross-section of the field of film studies, a handbook of methods, and an inquiry into the nature of inquiry itself.

Human body in motion pictures. --- Digital cinematography.

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This book introduces the rapidly evolving field of multi-omics in understanding the human microbiome. The book focuses on the technology used to generate multi-omics data, including advances in next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput methods. It also covers the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to the analysis of multi-omics data, providing readers with an overview of the powerful computational tools that are driving innovation in this field. The chapter also explores the various bioinformatics databases and tools available for the analysis of multi-omics data. The book also delves into the application of multi-omics technology to the study of microbial diversity, including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metaproteomics. The book also explores the use of these techniques to identify and characterize microbial communities in different environments, from the gut and oral microbiome to the skin microbiome and beyond. Towards the end, it focuses on the use of multi-omics in the study of microbial consortia, including mycology and the viral microbiome. The book also explores the potential of multi-omics to identify genes of biotechnological importance, providing readers with an understanding of the role that this technology could play in advancing biotech research. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the clinical applications of multi-omics technology, including its potential to identify disease biomarkers and develop personalized medicine approaches. Overall, this book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of this exciting field, highlighting the potential for multi-omics to transform our understanding of the microbial world.

Microbiology. --- Medical microbiology. --- Bioinformatics. --- Medical Microbiology. --- Human body

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'Body horror', a horror subgenre concerned with transformation, loss of control and the human body's susceptibility to disease, infection and external harm, has moved into the mainstream to become one of the greatest repositories of biopolitical discourse. Put simply, body horror acts out the power flows of modern life, visualising often imperceptible or ignored processes of marginalisation and behavioural policing, and revealing how interrelations between different social spheres (medical, legal, political, educational) produce embodied identity. This book offers the first sustained study of the types of body horror that have been popular in the twenty-first century and centres on the representational and ideological work they carry out. It proposes that, thanks to the progressive vision of feminist, queer and anti-racist practitioners, this important subgenre has expanded its ethical horizons and even found a sense of celebratory liberation in fantastic metamorphoses redolent of contemporary activist movements.

Horror films --- Human body in motion pictures. --- History and criticism.