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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"History of the Body"”.
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The politics of the table: Nutrition and the telescopic body in Saxon Germany, 1890-1935
… health and collective well-being because of what I call the “telescopic perspective.” This mode of thinking connected a nation of eaters (and drinkers) from the level of the international food trade all the way down to the vitamins that nourished their cells. It combined a positivist …
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The Destructive Nature of Suffering and the Liturgical Refashioning of the Person
<p>This dissertation is an exploration of the role that physical pain and trauma play in inhibiting moral development and personal relationships; it further asks how the Christian liturgy, as a central act and pedagogical tool of the church, might respond to the crises brought about by pain and …
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Reluctant patients: health, sickness and the embodiment of plebeian masculinity in nineteenth-century Britain: evidence from working men's autobiographies
This thesis is a contribution to the patient-centred history of medicine. It takes the historical agenda established by Dorothy and Roy Porter in their work on the Georgian middling sort and applies it to working-class men in nineteenth-century Britain. Thus it uses working men's autobiographies to …
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'Food, Body Weight, and Everyday Life in England, c. 1954–1990'
This thesis examines changing social attitudes to food and body weight in England in the period 1954 to 1990. It draws on ‘food-themed’ life history interviews with thirty men and women, together with Mass Observation directives and sociological surveys, to highlight the value of integrating …
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Gender, Body and Parenthood in Muscovite Russia
In Muscovite Russia, political power was often articulated through the image of the ruler and his family. Ideologies of family were crucial to the cultural envisioning of dynastic legitimacy and social order. Beginning from the sixteenth century, under the cultural influence of the …
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Intercorporeality and Technology: toward a new cognitive, aesthetic and communicative paradigm in the performing arts
The goal of this thesis was to reassess the relationship between the moving body and technology, and more specifically, to focus on recent perspectives in the performing arts which inscribe new manifestations and dynamics of cross-pollination between the somatic and technology. According to Dr. …
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Musical knowledge, material practices and the body politic in eighteenth-century France
… across Paris, most authors addressed music in their writings, and pre-revolutionary speeches provided musical metaphors to conjure social and political ideals. Why did music arouse such a widespread interest in this significant period of French history? This dissertation engages with this …