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Human Body
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To observe the correlation relationship between acupuncture at Dicang (ST 4), Hegu (LI 4) and Houxi (SI 3) on the affected side of peripheral facial paralysis patients and activated areas in brain functional areas and central regulation mechanism of acupuncture at Hegu (LI 4) treatment.
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PMID: 21739695
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As part of the Darwin celebrations in 2009, the Natural History Museum in London unveiled TREE, the first contemporary artwork to win a permanent place in the Museum. While the artist claimed that the inspiration for TREE came from Darwin's famous notebook sketch of branching evolution, sometimes ref...
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PMID: 21560437
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Asia Pacific Viewpoint (52)1 2011
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We can begin to create links between the historical and contemporary exploitation of Fijians and that at the essence of both is an underlying racial hierarchy and economic requirement for cheap and, arguably, expendable labour....
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PMID: 21761619
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This is a qualitative study about the relationship among nurses of a university hospital and their patients when they need to undress those patients to take care. The purpose was to analyze speech of seven nurses in this situation. The information was taken by transcribing the semi-structured intervi...
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PMID: 21308217
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Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (101)7 2010
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H E C Forum (22)3 2010
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The papers in this special thematic issue of HEC Forum critically and carefully explore key issues at the intersection of patient privacy and commodification. For example, should hospitals be required to secure a person's consent to any possible uses to which his discarded body parts might be put af...
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PMID: 20799055
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H E C Forum (22)3 2010
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This paper analyzes court rulings on tissue samples as property and critiques objections that have been raised to the recognition of DNA samples as personal property. The cases are: Moore v. Regents of the University of California (1988, 1990), Greenberg v. Miami Children's Research Institute (2003)...
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PMID: 20737193
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H E C Forum (22)3 2010
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This paper argues that individuals do, in a sense, own or have exclusive claims to control their personal information and body parts. It begins by sketching several arguments that support presumptive claims to informational privacy, turning then to consider cases which illustrate when and how privac...
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PMID: 20799052
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H E C Forum (22)3 2010
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I will indicate how privacy as life, liberty, property defines such a dynamic solution to the problems of commodification of human bodily material and slippery information in insurance markets....
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PMID: 20799054
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New Yorker () 2010
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Orvosi Hetilap (151)30 2010
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We could conclude that young people show the knowledge about the intense media's interference in the adolescent body....
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PMID: 20694331
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This phenomenological study aimed at understanding the meaning of sexual abuse in the manifestation of corporeity. It was performed at an outpatient clinic for victims of sexual abuse from a teaching hospital in Curitiba/Brazil, from February to May of year 2007. The statements were obtained by mean...
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PMID: 20642053
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American Historical Review (115)2 2010
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We presented human bodies in a block-design experiment to identify body-responsive regions of the brain, namely, extrastriate body area (EBA) and fusiform body area (FBA). In a separate event-related "adaptation" experiment, carried out in the same group of subjects, we presented sets of four human...
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PMID: 19309293
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The Lancet (375)9714 2010
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Gaceta medica de Mexico (146)2 2010
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We develop some key notions of body and corporeity that throughout history involve different symbolic conceptions of the diseased body from an anthropological perspective. We highlight the polysemic nature of bodily performance that involves nature and culture as well as the mind-body dual condition...
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PMID: 20626133
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New Yorker () 2010
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Gaceta Sanitaria (24)3 2010
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The present article analyzes the problematic of hygiene in the Luso-Brazilian medicine during the second half of 18th century. The chosen context to analysis is related to the changes of medical thought in Portugal along the period related to the appropriation of medical theories that circulated aro...
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PMID: 21189663
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All along the nineteenth century different anthropological exhibitions were held in many countries, in which people from a number of indigenous communities, especially transported from their homeland for the occasion, were exhibited publicly, both for citizenship's instruction and for specialists's...
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PMID: 21189664
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Modernism/Modernity (17)4 2010
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We will discuss some aspects of the construction of the meanings concerning the body from the scientific speech which was modeled based on modern thinking and became the hegemonic thinking of some sectors of the medical field. Meanings attributed to the body bring questions that come from other area...
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PMID: 20169233
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We carried out a qualitative study, using the case study method, with the objective of understanding the underlying beliefs, attitudes, perceptions and cultural processes to the narratives of the college's students submitted to aesthetic surgery and of the plastic surgeons. The results demonstrate t...
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PMID: 20169234
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In view of the great body aesthetic concern demonstrated by a group of adolescents from popular classes, this study had the purpose of getting to know and analyze the social representations of the body. It investigated the qualitative approach carried out with adolescent workers from the Centro Sale...
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PMID: 20169235
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Third World Quarterly (31)6 2010
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We proceed by examining the interplay between religion and politics in historical context and in specific concrete instances. While the religious right among Muslims and Christians share the view that women's bodies are sexually corrupting and therefore in need of control, this perspective is also f...
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PMID: 20857569
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I agree with much of Miller and Truog's criticism of the rationale offered by the President's Council for accepting neurological criteria for determining death but argue that they too quickly dismiss the alternative rationale of determining death by neurological criteria-i.e., the destruction of the...
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PMID: 20191950
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We think an organ draft is justified if mandatory autopsies are. We reject the following five attempts to show why a mandatory autopsy policy is legitimate, but organ conscription is not: (1) The social contract gives the state a greater duty to protect its citizens from each other than from disease...
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PMID: 20191949
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We examined whether visual information on the dynamic aspect of the actions performed by an individual can influence an observer's action. Sixteen participants cyclically generated an isometric precision grip force with their right thumb and index finger in synchronization with the contraction (in-p...
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PMID: 19786923
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The article surveys and analyzes the roles in Judaism of the value of imago Dei/human dignity, especially in bioethical contexts. Two main topics are discussed. The first is a comparative analysis of imago Dei as an anthropological and ethical concept in Jewish and Western thought (Christianity and...
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PMID: 19886523
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The Lancet (373)9671 2009
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The purpose of this study is to present a theoretical reflection about the relation between the Human Being, health and disease concepts, and the perspectives stemming from the development of the Quantum Theory. It presents arguments for the comprehension that, from the moment where the spiritual di...
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PMID: 19437874
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We present enunciations that circulate in the media regarding the body, discussing the ways in which the speeches related with the maintenance of health and aesthetics invest in its improvement. Therefore, we used the Caderno Vida, a weekly insert of Zero Hora, for we understand it as owner of a pro...
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PMID: 19653558
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Revista Medico-Chirurgicala (113)2 2009
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médecine/sciences (25)8-9 2009
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Acta medica portuguesa (22)3 2009
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We found worst results after intervention but with no significance for Medicines can only make me feel better. Communication strategies in a non paternalistic model of practice are important if made in accordance to correct audio-visual or written techniques. As main conclusions we found that knowle...
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PMID: 19686624
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I reviewed the previously existing knowledge of dwarfism in ancient Egypt. The purpose of this second historical review is to add to that knowledge with an expanded contribution. The artistic documentation of people with skeletal dysplasia from ancient Egypt is plentiful including hundreds of amulet...
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PMID: 19006207
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Morphologie (92)299 2008
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I du livre III, paragraphes 2 et 3. Le livre III en version bilingue (latin et français, établi et traduit par Pierre Gros, Les belles lettres) a alors été acquis et étudié. Le dessin de Vinci reproduit avec une grande fidélité la citation de Vitruve qui est un court passage de l’ensemble...
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PMID: 18951824
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Morphologie (92)299 2008
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The aim of the study was to find out and to analyse the text by Vitruvius which inspired the famous drawing by Leonardo da Vinci (circa 1490) kept in the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Venezia, Italy: the man inscribed in one circle and in one square. The book "de Architectura" by Vitru...
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PMID: 18951824
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British Journal of Psychology (99)Pt 4 2008
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We do not see it directly. Four experiments were conducted to verify what healthy people know about the size of their head. As a control, we used the accuracy in estimating other people's heads (in all the experiments) and the estimation of the size of another part of the body, the hand (in Experime...
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PMID: 18471345
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Objective. To explore experiences from a process of change for women with chronic pain. Design, setting, and subjects. A group-based treatment programme was intended to increase the awareness of how attitudes, habits and bodily practices are established, developed, and can be transforme...
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PMID: 18609251
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We hypothesized that skin temperature in a specific limb could be disrupted by psychologically disrupting the sense of ownership of that limb. In six separate experiments, and by using an established protocol to induce the rubber hand illusion, we demonstrate that skin temperature of the real hand d...
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PMID: 18725630
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The Lancet (372)9641 2008
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The aim of this study was to investigate whether the recognition of "self body parts" is independent from the recognition of other people's body parts. If this is the case, the ability to recognize "self body parts" should be selectively impaired after lesion involving specific brain areas. To verif...
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PMID: 18211238
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Psychosomatic Medicine (70)6 2008
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Participants with increased scores on the drive for thinness subscale looked longer and more often to the waist, hips, legs, and arms as compared with low scorers. In addition, they showed decreased attention toward the head or face. CONCLUSION: The results indicate that participants scoring high on...
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PMID: 18606732
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Ergonomics (51)6 2008
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Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are currently designing a wearable/portable neutron detector. As an alerting mechanism, the device will transmit vibration to the wearer's skin in the presence of hazardous levels of neutron radiation. The present study was designed to help in the er...
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PMID: 18484404
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We administered a battery of 12 tests assessing lexical and conceptual aspects of body part knowledge to 104 brain-damaged patients with lesions distributed throughout the telencephalon. There were two main outcomes. First, impaired oral naming of body parts, attributable to a disturbance of the map...
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PMID: 18608319
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Over the past few decades human tissues and fluids have increasingly become of interest to health-oriented research due to their potential use in the development of new diagnostic tools, drugs and treatment modalities. They have also become valuable commodities that figure prominently in the recover...
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PMID: 18678197
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Reproductive Health Matters (16)31 2008
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We highlight a possible but neglected reason why this is so. Current sexual rights declarations derive from the notion that the body, as a physical entity, belongs to the individual. However, our work in two southeastern Nigerian cultures, the Ngwa-Igbo and the Ubang, shows that there is at least on...
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PMID: 18513617
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We tried to identify all studies worldwide that analyzed the distribution of concentrations of POPs in a representative sample of the general population, and we synthesized the studies' main characteristics, as design, population, and chemicals analyzed. The most comprehensive studies are the Nation...
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PMID: 18054079
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