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Embroidering Infertility: Using Art to Reveal and Resist Technobiopower in In Vitro Fertilisation Experiences Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Rochelle Einboden, Brooke Wylie, Rachael Simons, Janice Gullick
In the Western context of delayed motherhood and declining fertility, an array of fertility enhancements have emerged. While bioethical debates and literature on the technological prowess of these enhancements proliferate, it is useful to explore the lived experience of women undergoing them. This article uses Tabitha Moses’ artwork Investment, a series of embroidered hospital gowns, as a vehicle to
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Engineering the Skin: Embodied Experiences of Healing from Acne Among YouTube Vloggers Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Miranda P. Dotson, Marc Lafrance
We examine how 24 adult YouTube vloggers tell their ‘acne stories’ by means of videos posted on YouTube between 2015 and 2020. In doing so, we study the relationship between embodied experiences of acne and health-seeking practices, particularly as they pertain to managing the everyday life of the body, abandoning medical expertise and embracing lay knowledge, living with disability, and engineering
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Reverse-Engineering Touch: Sense-Making and Making Sense with Prosthetic Neurostimulation Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Alexandra Middleton
At the frontier of research in neuroprosthetic limb technology, experimenters are developing systems for sensory feedback (prosthetic touch). Drawing upon two years of ethnographic fieldwork chronicling neuroprosthetic clinical trials, I interpret neurostimulation experiments as a reverse-engineering: in which efforts to engineer sensory feedback recursively inform basic scientific understanding about
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Effects of Patient Assessment and Education by an Integrated Care Team on Postoperative Adherence and Failure Rates After Osteochondral Allograft and Meniscal Allograft Transplantation in the Knee Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Kylee Rucinski, Renee Stucky, Cory R. Crecelius, James P. Stannard, James L. Cook
Background:Patient nonadherence with prescribed rehabilitation protocols is associated with up to 16 times higher likelihood of treatment failure after osteochondral allograft transplantation (OCA)...
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Assessment of Feelings Towards Advanced Care Planning in the Latino Community Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Holden Caplan, Jasmine Santos, Mariya Bershad, Kathleen Spritzer, John Liantonio
BackgroundPrevious studies have noted that participation in advanced care planning (ACP) and end-of-life (EOL) discussions remain low among Latino communities. Various studies have found that inter...
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Rate of Conversion to Matrix-Induced Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation After a Biopsy: A Multisurgeon Study Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Nicholas Pasic, Hannah L. Bradsell, Andres Barandiaran, Avi S. Robinson, Brian J. Cole, Armando F. Vidal, Rachel M. Frank
Background:Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) and matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI) are performed to treat focal chondral defects (FCDs); both are 2-step procedures i...
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Synchronous Undetected HPV+ Cancer in a HPV− Tongue Cancer Patient Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Soroush Ershadifar, Sarah Ustrell, Morgan Angus Darrow, Andrew Birkeland
We report a case of a 63-year-old male who presented with synchronous pT1N1 p16-positive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left tonsil and pT4N0 p16-negative SCC of the left tongue.
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The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale for Spleen Does Not Equally Predict Interventions in Penetrating and Blunt Trauma Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Hossam Abdel-Aziz, Clark Murray, Drew Roberts, Gwenviere Capron, Frederic Starr, Faran Bokhari, William Brigode
BackgroundThe American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale (OIS) for the spleen (and other organs) was created in 1989. It has been validated to predict mortality, need ...
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More on the Use of Goggles and Snorkel in Learning-to-Swim: New Results for Children Without Fear of Water Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Fatmir Misimi, Tajna Kajtna, Igor Štirn, Dajana Zoretić, Samir Misimi, Jernej Kapus
In recent research, we found that the use of goggles and snorkel benefited non-swimmers with fear of water in a learn-to-swim program. Our purpose in this study was to examine the effects of using ...
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Implications of COVID-19 Infection on Arteriovenous Fistula Thrombosis Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Camila Franco-Mesa, Elliot T. Walters, Nikhil R. Shah, Alen Palackic, Steven E. Wolf, Michael B. Silva
Objective: This study aims to identify and analyze implications of COVID‐19 positivity on AVF occlusion, subsequent treatment patterns, and ESRD patient outcomes. Our aim is to provide a quantitati...
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The Tertiary Survey as a Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Trauma Care Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Emily Ulloa, Jessica Archie, Sruthi Slevakumar, Marc Levy, Adel Elkbuli, Donald Plumley
BackgroundPatients are at risk of missed or delayed injuries in the setting of multisystem trauma, which may be identified with a tertiary trauma survey (TTS). There is limited literature to suppor...
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Architecture for Anatomy: History, Affect, and the Material Reproduction of the Body in Two Medical School Buildings Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 John Nott
Medical schools are among the most important spaces for the history of the body. It is here that students come to know the anatomical bodies of their future patients and, through a process of cogni...
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On the Contesting Conceptualisation of the Human Body: Between ‘Homo-Microbis’ and ‘Homo-Algorithmicus’ Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Dan M Kotliar, Rafi Grosglik
Microbiome science has highlighted human and microbial interdependency, offering a radical epistemic shift from the individualistic view of the human body and self. Research has accordingly offered...
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Cochlear Implants: Young Adults’ Embodied Experiences of Deafness and Hearing through Implanted Technology Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Claire Elizabeth Harris, Susan R Hemer, Anna Chur-Hansen
This article ethnographically considers the experiences of Australian young people who were born deaf and who hear and listen through cochlear implants to explore the intersection between the senso...
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Redefining Bioavailability through Migrant Egg Donors in Spain Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Michal Nahman, Christina Weis
This article utilises feminist technoscience studies’ notions of bodily ‘materialisation’ and ‘ontological choreographies’, offering a cyborg feminist account of ‘bioavailability’ as embodied becom...
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Programming Plasticity as Embodied in Childhood: A Critical Genealogy of The Biology of Adversity and Resilience Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Kevin Ryan
The Biology of Adversity and Resilience coheres around the claim that early childhood experiences of stress and adversity get ‘under the skin’ and become ‘biologically embedded’, increasing the ris...
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Doing Bodies in YouTube Videos about Contested Illnesses Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Irene Groenevelt, Sanneke de Haan, Jenny Slatman
This article is based on an online ethnographic study of Dutch women who use YouTube as a medium to document their contested illness experiences. During 13 months of observations between 2017 and 2...
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Primordial Brains and Bodies: How Neurobiological Discourses Shape Policing Experiences Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Laura Danique Keesman
This article demonstrates how the broader social development to understand behaviour and personhood as shaped by neurobiology forms a predominant narrative among police officers. Drawing on an ethn...
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Addiction and Enjoyment Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-12-04 Fredrik Palm
This article discusses how decentered understandings of addiction might benefit from ongoing debates in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Departing from recent critiques in critical addiction studies, it cl...
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Pregnant Bodies, Physical Activity and Health Literacy Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-10-28 Julie Bønnelycke, Maria Mieskewicz Larsen, Astrid Pernille Jespersen
In this article, we study health literacy as entangled and situated processes of authorisation of pregnant women to become competent caretakers of their own physical activity and health based on th...
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Shame, Chronic Illness and Participatory Storytelling Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-10-27 Carsten Stage
The article explores the complex roles shame plays in the lives of people with one or more chronic conditions. This is achieved through a participatory research process in which people with chronic...
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Bodies in Balance: Tracking Type 1 Diabetes Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Hélène Mialet
This article explores through the lens of Type 1 Diabetes what a body in fluctuation feels, and what kind of ecosystem has to be recreated to be able to survive, an ecosystem made of sensations, se...
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Nakedness as Decolonial Praxis Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-07-22 Mpho Mathebula
This article examines naked protests as efforts to advocate for social justice, particularly against patriarchal oppression and state violence. It explores ways in which women use naked body protes...
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Unfinished Lives and Multiple Deaths: Bodies, Buddhists and Organ Donation Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Tanya Maria Zivkovic
This article examines an Australian campaign to increase organ and tissue donation for transplantation. It analyses the use of the gift rhetoric to promote community awareness and resources, target...
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The Social Transmission of Bodily Knowledge Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Kelly Underman
Literature on bodily habit has often emphasised the inculcation of new bodily skills and embodied ways of being in practice. However, recent work demonstrates that skilled experts do focus on the b...
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The Temporal Politics of Placenta Epigenetics: Bodies, Environments and Time Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Martine Lappé, Robbin Jeffries Hein
This article builds on feminist scholarship on new biologies and the body to describe the temporal politics of epigenetic research related to the human placenta. Drawing on interviews with scientis...
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Symmetries of Touch: Reconsidering Tactility in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 Rebekka Ladewig, Henning Schmidgen
Engaging with the specific ways current media technologies interact with, or directly access the human body, we suggest developing a ‘symmetrical’ theory of touch. Critically referring to Bruno Lat...
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Living with ‘New Diseases’ in Dakar: Embodied Time and the Emergence of Chronicity Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Branwyn Poleykett
In this article, I examine how the emergence of chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and heart disease reshapes perceptions of time, embodiment, ageing and the life course in the West ...
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The Tacit Dimension of Touch: Tactile Recognition, Tangibility and Self-touch in Kurt Goldstein’s Studies on Agnosia Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Rebekka Ladewig
In his experimental studies on tactile recognition, the German neurologist Kurt Goldstein observes a peculiar ‘twitching movement’ of the body in neurologically impaired patients suffering from min...
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Circuits of Time: Enacting Postgenomics in Indigenous Australia Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-02-24 Megan Warin, Jaya Keaney, Emma Kowal, Henrietta Byrne
Some Indigenous Australians have embraced developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) and epigenetic discourses to highlight the legacies of slow violence in a settler colonial context. Des...
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Pathic Subjectivation: Guattari’s Experiments with Contact Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Andrew Goffey
Engaging with the account of pathic subjectivation developed by Félix Guattari, this article explores the ways in which his thinking about the production of subjectivity takes up and transforms the...
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Images Made by Contagion: On Dermatological Wax Moulages Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Mechthild Fend
Moulages are contact media – images made by contagion in the most literal sense: their production relies on a process in which the object to be reproduced is touched by the reproducing material. In the case of dermatological moulages, the plaster touches the infected skin of the sick and, once dried, serves as the negative form for the waxen image of a disease. Focussing on the collection of the Hôpital
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Exploring the Multiplicity of Embodied Agency in Colombian Assisted Reproduction Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Malissa Kay Shaw
Analyses of assisted reproductive technologies have demonstrated how objectification and agency can coexist in infertility centres. How objectification creates opportunities for empowerment, however, has not yet been explored. In analysing women’s narratives of assisted conception in Colombian infertility clinics, I demonstrate the complexity in women’s embodied experiences of various objectifying
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Affect Theory and Breast Cancer Memoirs: Rescripting Fears of Death and Dying in the Anthropocene Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Jennifer Mae Hamilton
Re-evaluating dominant cultural narratives around dying and death is central to new critiques of individualism and human exceptionalism. As conceptual tools for theorizing the end of the individual proliferate, the affective dimensions of this project are often overlooked, especially as they pertain to individual subjects. In contrast, a significant number of iconic queer and feminist thinkers have
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Women’s Bodies and the Evolution of Anti-rape Technologies: From the Hoop Skirt to the Smart Frock Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Caroline Wilson-Barnao, Alex Bevan, Robyn Lincoln
In this article, we explore smart deterrents and their historical precedents marketed to women and girls for the purpose of preventing harassment, sexual abuse and violence. Rape deterrents, as we define them, encompass customs, architectures, fashions, surveillant infrastructures, apps and devices conceived to manage and protect the body. Online searches reveal an array of technologies, and we engage
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Governing Corporeal Movement in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Pablo Holwitt
This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the relationship between bodies, risk and mobility. Drawing upon ethnographic data from India, it is argued that measures taken by the Indian government to contain the spread of the pandemic link mobile bodies to the notion of risk which has profound consequences for the way in which people access and engage with public spaces in Indian cities
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Interview with Samantha Frost, ‘Attentive Body’: Epigenetic Processes and the Self-formative Subjectivity Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-22 Tomoko Tamari
The interview is a follow-up from Samantha Frost’s article, ‘The Attentive Body’ in Body & Society 26(4). Tomoko Tamari invites Frost to explore her interest in ‘biocultural creatures’, with its focus on ‘bodies’ responsive self-transformation’ in epigenetic processes, and unfolds Peirce’s account of the index for understanding meaning-making in biological processes. Tamari also introduces Katherine
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Hearing Gloves and Seeing Tongues? Disability, Sensory Substitution and the Origins of the Neuroplastic Subject Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Mark Paterson
Researchers in post-war industrial laboratories such as Bell Labs and the Smith-Kettlewell Institute pioneered solutions to compensate for sensory loss through so-called sensory substitution systems, premised on an assumption of cortical and sensory plasticity. The article tracks early discussions of plasticity in psychology literature from William James, acknowledged by Wiener, but explicitly developed
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Headphones, Auditory Violence and the Sonic Flooding of Corporeal Space Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Jacob Kingsbury Downs
In this article, I develop and redirect Julian Henriques’s model of sonic dominance through examination of accounts of acoustic violence and torture involving headphones. Specifically, I show how auditory experience has been weaponized as an intracorporeal phenomenon, with headphones effecting a sense of sounds invading the interior phenomenological space of the head. By analysing reported cases of
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Exoskeletons, Rehabilitation and Bodily Capacities Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Denisa Butnaru
Motility impairments resulting from spinal cord injuries and cerebrovascular accidents are increasingly prevalent in society, leading to the growing development of rehabilitative robotic technologies, among them exoskeletons. This article outlines how bodies with neurological conditions such as spinal cord injury and stroke engage in processes of re-appropriation while using exoskeletons and some of
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Recombinant DNA and Genome-editing Technologies: Embodied Utopias and Heterotopias Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-15 Eva Šlesingerová
Recombinant DNA technology is an essential area of life engineering. The main aim of research in this field is to experimentally explore the possibilities of repairing damaged human DNA, healing or enhancing future human bodies. Based on ethnographic research in a Czech biochemical laboratory, the article explores biotechnological corporealities and their specific ontology through dealings with bio-objects
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Primordial Haptics, 1925–1935: Hands, Tools and the Psychotechnics of Prehistory Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Max Stadler
‘Psychotechnics’, Weimar Germany’s science du jour, typically is framed as a symptom of ‘technological media’ – obscuring the persistent significance of ‘dexterity’, ‘skill’ and ‘manual labour’ at the time. More broadly, there is a tendency to construe ‘the haptic’ as predominantly a casualty of modernity: skilled hands replaced by conveyor belts; skilled hands defended by the rearguard actions of
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Surface Media: McLuhan, the Bauhaus and the Tactile Values of TV Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Henning Schmidgen
Marshall McLuhan understood television (TV) as a tactile medium. This understanding implied what Bruno Latour might call a ‘symmetrical’ conception of tactility. According to McLuhan, not only human actors are endowed with the sense of touch. In addition, TV, digital computers and other ‘electric media’ use light beams and similar scanning techniques for ceaselessly ‘caressing the contours’ of their
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The Haunting Temporalities of Transplantation Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Donna McCormack
This article examines the temporality of organ transplantation with a focus on memoirs where the recipient has received an organ from a deceased donor. I argue that death constitutes life. That is, this absent presence – that the organ is materially present but the person is dead and therefore absent – is the foundation for rethinking relationality as constituted through the haunting presence of those
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Dancing with and within the Digital Domain Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Digital cameras and motion capture technologies that document and share creative practices have transformed the way we think about dance as an embodied knowledge as well as the way we experience it bodily. Computational media, which not only records and archives but also calculates, analyses and models dance, further complicates its ontological status. This move to document and inscribe dance in a
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Animal, Body, Data: Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming In-formation Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2021-05-18 Mickey Vallee
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations and is consequential for how we study the affective relations between individual bodies and the communities to which they belong. It takes up the relationship between animal, body and data, following the datafication of starling murmurations, to explore
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Carrying as Method: Listening to Bodies as Archives Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-12-11 Nirmal Puwar
Carrying as Method unpacks the notion of ‘carrying’ as an embodied set of influences that bear upon our research practices and journeys. It is widely recognised that we acquire and carry a body of ...
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Disposalscapes: ‘Estranged’ Limbs after Amputation Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Esmée Hanna
The disposal of limbs remains absent from our understandings of amputation, with ‘estranged limbs’ occupying a liminal position. Despite acceptance that the appropriate disposal of human tissue mat...
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The Attentive Body: How the Indexicality of Epigenetic Processes Enriches Our Understanding of Embodied Subjectivity Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Samantha Frost
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as
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Bodies of Fashion and the Fashioning of Subjectivity Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Andrea Eckersley, Cameron Duff
This article explores the links between habit, fashion and subjectification to extend analysis of the clothed body beyond the semiotic frames that have tended to dominate discussions of fashion across the social sciences and humanities. Our goal is to explain how fashion’s diverse materialities participate in the modulations of subjectivity, affecting bodies in diverse encounters between matter, signs
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Drawing Atmosphere: A Case Study of Architectural Design for Care in Later Life Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Daryl Martin, Sarah Nettleton, Christina Buse
In this article, we use an entry to an international architectural student competition on future care to explore how social norms about older bodies may be challenged by designs that are sensitive to the spatial contexts within which we age. The power of the My Home design by Witham and Wilkins derives from its hand-drawn aesthetic and thus we consider the architects’ insistence on drawing as a challenge
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Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Tomoko Tamari
Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies
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Intimate Lives in the Global Bioeconomy: Reproductive Biographies of Mexican Egg Donors Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-09-10 Laura Perler, Carolin Schurr
Research on cross-border reproductive care has shown how the geographical, historical, economic and political contexts in which egg donation takes place shape this transnational practice. As many w...
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Mapping the Drugged Body: Telling Different Kinds of Drug-using Stories Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Fay Dennis
Drugged bodies are commonly depicted as passive, suffering and abject, which makes it hard for them to be known in other ways. Wanting to get closer to these alternative bodies and their resourcefulness for living, I turned to body-mapping as an inventive method for telling different kinds of drug-using stories. Drawing on a research project with people who inject heroin and crack cocaine in London
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Fascias: Methodological Propositions and Ontologies That Stretch and Slide Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 Doerte Weig
This commentary introduces fascia, our bodily connective tissue, as a contribution to thinking body as process beyond mind–body dualisms. Research in the field of Fascia Studies has shown that fascias’ core qualities are shifting and sliding in tensional responsiveness and that its both/and tissue-and-system features challenge clear-cut definitions. Acknowledging these characteristics of human physiology
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What More Do Bodies Know? Moving with the Gendered Affects of Place Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Gabrielle Ivinson, EJ Renold
This article focuses on what bodies know yet which cannot be expressed verbally. We started with a problem encountered during conventional interviewing in an ex-mining community in south Wales when...
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Towards a Theory of Posthuman Care: Real Humans and Caring Robots Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Amelia DeFalco
This essay interrogates the common assumption that good care is necessarily human care. It looks to disruptive fictional representations of robot care to assist its development of a theory of posthuman care that jettisons the implied anthropocentrism of ethics of care philosophy but retains care’s foregrounding of entanglement, embodiment and obligation. The essay reads speculative representations
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The (De)materialization of Criminal Bodies in Forensic DNA Phenotyping Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-06-04 Rafaela Granja, Helena Machado, Filipa Queirós
Forensic DNA phenotyping is a genetic technology that might be used in criminal investigations. Based on DNA samples of the human body found at crime scenes, it allows to infer externally visible c...
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Breathing Song and Smoke: Ritual Intentionality and the Sustenance of an Interaffective Realm Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-05-29 Elizabeth Rahman, Bernd Brabec de Mori
In lowland South America, breath animates human and non-human bodies, pulsating through the materialities of organisms. Humans, however, should manage their bodies to recast and reconfigure breath in its most life-enhancing manifestations: singing and smoking. These are the specialized domains of those able to manage their vitalities in such a way as to produce potent effects in themselves and in the
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Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies Body & Society (IF 2.122) Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Irma Kinga Allen
Social theory has paid little attention to air, despite its centrality to bodily existence and air pollution being named the world’s biggest public health crisis. Where attention to air is found, the body is largely absent. On the other hand, conceptualizing the body without life-sustaining breath fails to highlight breathing as the ongoing metabolic bodily act in which the materiality of human and