Sean Heath,Thomas F Carter
Sean Heath
This article develops the concept of 'haptic grammar' to encourage greater scholarly focus on the sensory aspects of bodily motion used to generate movement, knowledge of one's body in an environment, and thus being-in-the-world. It ethnogr...
Multiplying Meanings of Pregnancy Through Personal Accounts of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease [0.03%]
妊娠滋养细胞疾病患者个人经历中的孕期多重含义
Emily Ross
Emily Ross
In cultures where reproduction is highly medicalised, pregnancy is often understood in terms of foetal development and an anticipated baby. This is connected to a wider privileging of the 'foetal subject' in these settings, which has had im...
The Temporal Politics of Placenta Epigenetics: Bodies, Environments and Time [0.03%]
胎盘表观遗传学的时间政治学：身体、环境与时间
Martine Lappé,Robbin Jeffries Hein
Martine Lappé
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 scientists and observations at conferences and in l...
Fay Dennis
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 ...
Rebecca Oxley,Andrew Russell
Rebecca Oxley
Breath, the ephemeral materialization of air at the interface of body and world, engages with and alters the quality of both. As a process of inhalation and exhalation that signals its physiological universality, breath is an invisible prer...
Making Breath Visible: Reflections on Relations between Bodies, Breath and World in the Critical Medical Humanities [0.03%]
可见的气息：论批判医学人文主义视野下的身体、气息与世界的关系
Jane Macnaughton
Jane Macnaughton
Breath is invisible and yet ever present and vital for living beings. The concept of invisibility in relation to breath operates in concrete and metaphorical ways to extend ideas about breath and breathlessness across disciplines, in clinic...
Maurizio Meloni
Maurizio Meloni
This article sets the stage for a genealogy of the postgenomic body. It starts with the current transformative views of epigenetics and microbiomics to offer a more pluralistic history in which the ethical problem of how to live with a perm...
Hannah Landecker
Hannah Landecker
Beginning in the 1940s, mass production of antibiotics involved the industrial-scale growth of microorganisms to harvest their metabolic products. Unfortunately, the use of antibiotics selects for resistance at answering scale. The turn to ...
Listening-touch, Affect and the Crafting of Medical Bodies through Percussion [0.03%]
叩诊：通过触诊聆听锻造医学身体及情感属性
Anna Harris
Anna Harris
The growing abundance of medical technologies has led to laments over doctors' sensory de-skilling, technologies viewed as replacing diagnosis based on sensory acumen. The technique of percussion has become emblematic of the kinds of skills...
Julie Kent,Anne-Maree Farrell
Julie Kent
In 2003 the UK National Blood Service introduced a policy of 'male donor preference' which involved women's plasma being discarded following blood collection. The policy was based on the view that data relating to the incidence of Transfusi...