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Sarajlic, Eldar. "Children, Culture, and Body Modification." Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 30, no. 2 (2020): 167–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ken.2020.0005.

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Latini, Theresa F. "Body Modification: Adolescence, Popular Culture & Practical Theology." Journal of Youth and Theology 4, no. 2 (January 27, 2005): 69–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24055093-90000138.

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This article explores the relationship between popular culture and practical theology through an analysis of body modification. The first section describes the practice of body modification in its various forms-from tattoos to extreme piercing and implants to ritual dance and suspension. The second section interprets this practice using both a sociological and a psychological lens, while the third section highlights the theological (spiritual) questions embedded in body mod. Finally, the article encourages Christian educators and youth ministers to address the spiritual needs and questions of adolescents related embodiment in their ministerial practice.

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Nynäs, Peter. "Multiple bodies in the spirituality of the gay porn star McCree: reflections on corporeality and subjectivity." Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 23 (January 1, 2011): 333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67393.

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Body modification practices have lately gained growing visibility in contemporary Western cultures. It is more like a trend or fashion ranging from, on the on hand, decorative tattoos and piercing, to branding, implants and surgery on the other. In most forms body modification occurs without any obvious religious, spiritual or ideological marks attached, but some forms involve discourses that explicitly address such aspirations. However, despite the fluidity and diversity of practices, it can be claimed that body modification represents specific or distinct ways of working with the body that differ from other forms of contemporary Western body cultures. Further, it needs be considered as part of the broader body culture. Hence it draws our attention to the role of corporeality in contemporary Western culture. Body modification could be regarded as a reaction to the nature of contemporary society, a way of compensating the lack of corporeal engagement in the world. Its former association with different subcultures might underpin this oppositional position. On the other hand, some scholars regard body-modification as nothing but part of the contemporary free floating carnival of signs, as mere mainstream supermarket signifiers, emptied of meaning and deprived of any external references. In this article emphasis is put on forms of body modification that more explicitly connote religion. One example of body modification is explored from an empirical perspective: the story about the spirituality of the gay porn star Logan McCree. This is a personal narrative about spirituality in which tattooing plays a central role. Still, despite being personal it is also part of McCree’s public image. With the help of both literature and the examples on body modification the place of corporeality in the story of McCree is explored. The aim is to shed some light on corporeality and in particular in relation to subjectivity.

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Klesse, Christian. "Racialising the Politics of Transgression: Body Modification in Queer Culture." Social Semiotics 17, no. 3 (September 2007): 275–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10350330701448561.

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Jerslev, Anne. "The Mediated Body." Nordicom Review 27, no. 2 (November 1, 2006): 133–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0235.

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Abstract Taking Vivian Sobchack’s idea of the digital morph as not only a digital practice but also a metaphor for a culture obsessed with the idea of bodily changes, of reversibility and metamorphoses, the article takes a closer look at the visual construction of the body as a site of transformation, modification, and improvement in both television, film and fashion photography. The article focuses on the two reality programmes /Extreme Makeover/ (ABC) and /The Swan/ (FOX), the American drama-series /Nip/Tuck/ and an extended series of fashion photographs from /Italian Vogue/ July 2005 by American photographer Steven Meisel titled /Makeover Madness/. The article argues that this modifiable body is today’s /natural body /and it concludes that even though the modified body, digital or not, is noticable everywhere in contemporary visual culture it may, primarily, point out what our culture wants to deny.

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Lewis, J. C., I. Hermanns, K. W. Grant, S. Evans, C. Gossen, A. Dekker, and C. J. Kirkpatrick. "Substratum modification by endothelial cells (EC) in culture." Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America 50, no. 1 (August 1992): 656–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424820100123684.

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Thrombosis resulting from blood interaction with prostheses is a concern following vascular grafting, and efforts have been made to endothelialize grafting materials and thereby reduce thrombogenicity. These efforts have focused upon altering polymer surfaces to enhance endothelial compatibility following surgery; however, using homologous EC attempts are being made to pre-seed grafting materials having defined surface characteristics. Such surfaces might be pre-absorbed with natural polymers as collagens, fibrin(ogen) or fibronectin. Irrespective of the starting character, these surfaces are rapidly altered following contact with tissues and body fluids, and as an extension by the EC themselves. To address this latter question, human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) were seeded for whole-mouat microscopy onto carbon-stabilized, formvar-coated surfaces to which either collagen Type IV or its CB3 fragment had been adsorbed. Following culture for 3 or 24 hrs the cells were fixed in situ with glutaraldehyde, washed and processed for two-stage multiantigen immunogold microscopy. The first stage was comprised of rabbit anti-human fibronectin and mouse antihuman collagen Type IV. These were followed by second stage probes including goat anti-rabbit IgG (5nM gold), goat anti-mouse IgG (15 nM gold) and goat anti-human IgG (10 nM gold) as a control. HUVEC readily attached to and spread upon collagen IV and the CB3 fragment; the degree of spreading was much more pronounced with CB3 at both 3 and 24 hrs. The primary difference between the culture times was in cell density, with more cells at 24 than 3 hrs (Fig. 1). This difference could be explained by the additional generation time. The interaction of cells with the substratum was complex. This included deposition of proteins on the surface and extension of delicate macromolecular bridges from the cell periphery. Through the use of immunogold microscopy, fibronectin, collagen and immunoglobulin could be detected in all samples, including those plated in the absence of serum. Initially, collagen (IV and CB3) was more dense on the substrate than on the cells, and this was consistent with surface coating prior to cell seeding (Fig. 3). Fibronectin and IgG, on the other hand, were derived either from the medium or secreted from the cells, and each was associated with the cells or the cell edge (Fig. 4,5). Notably, detection of all three peptides was reduced over time, and this may be interpreted as secondary conditioning of the surface by HUVEC secreted products.

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Bridel, William, and Geneviève Rail. "Sport, Sexuality, and the Production of (Resistant) Bodies: De-/Re-Constructing the Meanings of Gay Male Marathon Corporeality." Sociology of Sport Journal 24, no. 2 (June 2007): 127–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ssj.24.2.127.

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Placing the sporting body and Michel Foucault’s technologies of power and of the self at the center of our research inquiry, this article explores the ways in which 12 Canadian gay male marathoners discursively construct their bodies within and beyond the marathon context. Thematic analysis of the research materials (gathered through guided conversations, written stories, and the first author’s research journal) revealed four main themes: self-governed bodily practices, body modification, the marathoning body as resistant to dominant representations of male corporeality in gay culture, and transformative potential. Following Foucault, materials were further submitted to discourse analysis through which we uncovered the appropriation of and resistance to dominant discourses. This analysis suggested the subjects’ discursive constructions as “hybrid” creations located both within, and sometimes in contest to, dominant discourses of physical activity, running, and the male body in gay culture. Our research explores the experiences of gay male athletes through a sociological lens that differs from the present literature, which has largely drawn on hegemony theory. It also adds new insights into distance running as a social phenomenon.

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Nordstedt, Christer, and Bertil B. Fredholm. "A modification of a protein-binding method for rapid quantification of cAMP in cell-culture supernatants and body fluid." Analytical Biochemistry 189, no. 2 (September 1990): 231–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-2697(90)90113-n.

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Xu, You Dong, Jian Qing Xiong, Shi Guang Xu, and Jun Jun Zhang. "Investigation of the Surface Modification on Biomedical Magnesium Alloy." Advanced Materials Research 1095 (March 2015): 295–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1095.295.

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In this work, the green chemistry conversion coating on AZ31 magnesium alloy surface was made and studied by means of Ce (SO4)2·2(NH4)2SO4·4H2O and MnSO4 as inhibitor, H2O2 as oxidant, NaCl as accelerator, CH3COOH as stabilizer. The coating was evaluated in simulated body fluid (SBF) with pH=7.4 at 37°C by using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). The results show the conversion coating resistance, for the untreated or treated alloy, is 0.75 kΩ·cm2 and 3.28 kΩ·cm2 respectively. It indicates the conversion coating treated surface presents better corrosion behaviour in SBF than the original material surface. The morphologies and composition the coating were examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) respectively. The result indicates that the Ce-Mn conversion coating was made on magnesium alloy surface. Biocompatibility of conversion coating was investigated by use of cell toxicity. Cell culture has shown that the magnesium alloy has good cytocompatibility.

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Gump, William. "Modern induced skull deformity in adults." Neurosurgical Focus 29, no. 6 (December 2010): E4. http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/2010.10.focus10203.

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The practice of induced skull deformity has long existed in numerous disparate cultures, but for the first time in history it can be applied to adults. While extremely limited in application, some ideas have persisted in the far fringes of modern Western culture with remarkable tenacity. Practitioners of extreme body modification undergo procedures, outside the sphere of traditional medical practice, to make striking, permanent, nontraditional esthetic tissue distortions with the goal of transgressing societal norms. The International Trepanation Advocacy Group represents another example of a fringe cultural movement, whose goal, rather than being purely aesthetic in nature, is to promote elective trepanation as a method for achieving a heightened level of consciousness. Both movements have relatively short and well-defined histories. Despite their tiny numbers of adherents, neurosurgeons may be called on to address relevant patient concerns preprocedurally, or complications postprocedurally, and would benefit from awareness of these peculiar subcultures.

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Adams, Joshua R. "Transient bodies, pliable flesh culture, stratification, and body modification /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1181666499.

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Long, Jessica X. "She Inked! Women in American Tattoo Culture." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1588796599281498.

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Pevey, Timothy Aaron. "From Superman to Superbland: The Man of Steel's Popular Decline among Postmodern Youth." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/19.

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Although immensely popular with American boys upon his debut in 1938, Superman has gradually lost relevance with the postmodern generation. DC Comics has rewritten the character numerous times in an attempt to regain lost popularity, but the problem lies in an aspect of his character they refuse to alter – his invulnerability. Superman’s invulnerable body was engineered to quell the fears America harbored towards technological progress, but his impervious physique now renders him obsolete. Boys in postmodern America, under the influence of post-Enlightenment body values, now connect with vulnerable comic book heroes whose bodies more closely match their own. This paper examines the sociological reasons for the shift in Superman’s popularity by comparing the body values of 1938 with those of today, and concludes that while Superman might have succeeded as a modern hero, he fails as a postmodern one.

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Albin, Drema Dial. "Making the body (w)hole a qualitative study of body modifications and culture /." Full text (off-campus access restricted to users with UT Austin EID) Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3023541.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001.
Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International. Available also from UMI's Dissertation Abstracts.

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Domingues, Josiane Vian. "A pedagogização de corpos a partir do body modification: produzindo feminilidades." reponame:Repositório Institucional da FURG, 2010. http://repositorio.furg.br/handle/1/2921.

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Dissertação(mestrado)- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação em Ciências: Química da Vida e Saúde, Instituto de Educação, 2010.
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Com essa dissertação tenho como objetivo principal problematizar como são produzidas as feminilidades sobre os corpos a partir das técnicas do body modification em dois espaços em que a pedagogia está atuando diretamente: na rua e no espaço virtual www.suicidegirls.com. Considero o body modification como sendo um conceito que remete a utilização de técnicas que façam com que os sujeitos adquiram características em seus corpos que em pouco se assemelhem ao biológico, seja a partir da aplicação de tatuagens, piercings, escarificações, brandings... Para responder tal proposta, considero a ciência como sendo aquela que é compreendida no discurso de quem a produz, em outras palavras, nas vontades de verdade dos sujeitos. A ciência aqui está baseada na produção de outros conhecimentos, outros valores nas sociedades, dessa forma, criando outras regras, a partir de outros saberes. É uma forma de reconduzir o saber que é aplicado em uma sociedade. Segundo essa perspectiva, pensar a produção de feminilidades, a partir da utilização de técnicas do body modification e desse modo de compreender a ciência, é colocar sob suspeita as metanarrativas que são construídas como verdade para as mulheres. Para tanto, fundamento esse estudo a partir da perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais e de Gênero, especificamente utilizando a vertente pós-estruturalista, com os estudos foucaultianos. Os estudos pautados sobre essa vertente consideram tanto os corpos quantos os gêneros dos sujeitos enquanto uma construção social e cultural, envolta em de relações de poder. Para desenvolver a pesquisa, utilizei instrumentos da pesquisa cartográfica e também da análise do discurso, sob perspectiva foucaultiana. Assim, com esse estudo utilizo dois espaços pedagógicos considerados informais, onde as relações acontecem, para analisar como são produzidas as feminilidades sobre os corpos com a utilização das técnicas do body modification: a Avenida Rio Grande, juntamente com o Largo Dr. Pio, na cidade de Rio Grande e o sítio virtual www.suicidegirls.com. Esses espaços me possibilitaram perceber as diferentes maneiras que as mulheres, ao utilizarem as técnicas do body modification, conduzem as suas feminilidades, seja seguindo as normas que são colocadas como verdade ou, ao contrário, criando outras formas de produzi-las. Em outras palavras, pude perceber que a utilização de piercings, tatuagens, dilatadores, escarificações e tantas outras técnicas do body modification até agora identificadas mostram que existem diferentes maneiras de se constituir feminina na sociedade. Algumas adeptas do body modification, tanto as que transitam em determinadas ruas da cidade do Rio Grande (RS) quanto aquelas que são modelos no www.suicidegirls.com, preconizam, em alguns casos, um rompimento, uma resistência às maneiras de produzir as feminilidades, construindo outras formas de ser mulher, seguindo outras condutas, outros modelos para os seus corpos. No entanto, algumas das mulheres entrevistadas apresentam um discurso de que tais técnicas são formas de potencializar as feminilidades legitimadas para elas.
With this dissertation, I aim to problematize how are produced the femininities of the bodies from the techniques of body modification in two areas in which teaching is directly acting: on the street and in cyberspace www.suicidegirls.com. I believe that the body modification as the use of techniques that make the people acquire characteristics in their bodies that resemble in some of their biological constitution, from the application of tattoos, piercings, scarification, brandings ... To put this work, I consider science as one that is understood in the discourse of those who produce it, in other words, the wills for truth of the subject and not the hegemonic, which presents the correct answer, the only legitimate, which was based on mathematical discoveries in the middle of the sixteenth century. The science here is based on the production of other knowledge, other values in society, creating other rules, from other knowledge. These, to produce knowledge, has educated and pedagogizing bodies, in other words, it produces the subject and sets their modes of being and acting in society. From this perspective, think about the production of femininities, from the use of techniques of body modification is put under suspicion the “metanarrativas” that are built as true for women. To this end, the foundation to work from the perspective of Cultural Studies and Gender, specifically using the present poststructuralist, with reference to the analysis of Michel Foucault. Studies had ruled on this case consider both the bodies and genders of the people as a social and cultural construction, involved in power relations. To develop the research, I used research instruments and also mapping of discourse analysis, Foucauldian perspective. So with this study using two pedagogical spaces considered informal, where relationships happen, to analyze how femininities are produced on bodies with the use of techniques of body modification: Avenida Rio Grande, along with the Largo Dr. Pius in City of Rio Grande and the site Virtual www.suicidegirls.com. These spaces allowed me to understand the different ways that women, by using the techniques of body modification, conduct their femininity, is following the rules that are placed as truth or, conversely, creating other ways to produce them. In other words, I could see that the use of piercings, tattoos, dilators, scarification and many other techniques of body modification identified so far show that there are different ways to provide women in society. Some devotees of body modification, both those who move in certain streets of Rio Grande (RS) as those who are models in www.suicidegirls.com, advocate, in some cases, a break up, a resistance to the ways of producing femininities by constructing other forms of being a woman, following other approaches, other models for their bodies. However, some of the women present a speech that such techniques are ways to enhance the legitimacy femininity to them.

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Steinberg, Jacqueline. "The Social Construction of Beauty| Body Modification Examined Through the Lens of Social Learning Theory." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1692046.

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This thesis examines the psychosocial and cultural factors behind body modification practices of breast augmentation, female circumcision, and foot binding in order to understand the growing trend of cosmetic surgery. Body modification is examined through the lens of Albert Bandura’s social learning theory using hermeneutic methodology that analyzes quantitative and qualitative data. Cross-cultural research on breast augmentation, female circumcision, and foot binding provides insight into how body modification practices are internalized through observational learning. The findings demonstrate that women are faced with social pressures to conform to physical ideals that often require modification of the body. Bandura’s theory of self-efficacy provides insights into how women can exercise choice, personal agency, and self-direction to guide personal decisions pertaining to cosmetic surgery within the context of social pressures.

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Brahler, Emily A. "Ancient Cranial Modifications with Medical and Cultural Significance." Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430677637.

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Weigle, Elizabeth A. "The American trend of female pubic hair removal exploring a popular culture body modification /." 2009. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/weigle%5Felizabeth%5Fa%5F200912%5Fms.

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Šánová, Eva. ""Mám to na háku" - fenomén suspension v kontextu tělesných modifikací." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-327018.

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The topic of this diploma thesis is body modification culture phenomenon called 'suspension'. It is a voluntary act of suspending a human body from hooks or piercings that have been temporarily pierced through the skin. Suspension is an age-old technique practiced for example by North American Indian Mandan tribe. It has been brought to the modern era and body modification culture by modern primitives. The part of the thesis is a placement of suspension to the broader sociocultural and historical context, there will be also space for development of concept of body, embodiment and pain in the western word and ritual aspect of suspension. The source for this work is mainly accessible literature, internet pages dedicated to body modifications and participant observation completed with interviews with people who had been suspended.

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Robitaille, Michèle. "Culture du corps et technosciences : vers une « mise à niveau » technique de l’humain? Analyse des représentations du corps soutenues par le mouvement transhumaniste." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2824.

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L’intérêt marqué porté actuellement aux recherches NBIC (nano-bio-info-cognitivo technologies) visant l’optimisation des capacités humaines augure d’un profond bouleversement dans nos représentations du corps humain et du rapport humain-machine. Tour à tour, des travaux issus des domaines du génie génétique, de la pharmacologie, des biotechnologies ou des nanotechnologies nous promettent un corps moins sujet à la maladie, mieux « adapté » et surtout plus malléable. Cette construction en laboratoire d’un corps amélioré fait amplement écho aux préoccupations contemporaines concernant la santé parfaite, le processus de vieillissement, l’inaptitude, l’apparence, la performance, etc. En vue d’analyser les transformations qu’induisent ces recherches sur les représentations du corps, nous avons construit un modèle théorique appuyé, d’une part, sur des travaux en sociologie du corps et, d’autre part, sur des travaux en épistémologie des sciences. Puis, en scrutant différents textes de vulgarisation scientifique produits par des chercheurs transhumanistes – militant ouvertement en faveur d’une optimisation radicale des capacités humaines par le biais des technosciences –, il a été observé que les représentations du corps s’organisent autour de trois principaux noyaux. Le corps humain est présenté, dans ce discours, comme étant à la fois informationnel, technologiquement perfectible et obsolète. Cette représentation tripartite du corps permet aux transhumanistes d’ériger leur modèle d’action (i.e. amélioration des capacités physiques, intellectuelles, sensitives, émotionnelles, etc.) à titre de nécessité anthropologique. À leurs yeux, l’amélioration des conditions humaines doit passer par une mutation contrôlée de la biologie (i.e. une hybridation avec la machine) du fait que le corps serait « inadapté » au monde contemporain. Ainsi, les promesses NBIC, une fois récupérées par les chercheurs transhumanistes, se voient exacerbées et prennent une tonalité péremptoire. Ceci contribue vivement à la promotion du posthumain ou du cyborg, soit d’un individu transformé dans l’optique d’être plus robuste et intelligent, de moduler sa sensitivité et ses états émotifs et de vivre plus longtemps, voire indéfiniment. Enfin, situé à mi-chemin entre la science et la science-fiction, ce projet est qualifié de techno-prophétie en ce qu’il produit d’innombrables prévisions basées sur les avancées technoscientifiques actuelles et potentielles. Afin d’accroître l’acceptabilité sociale de leur modèle d’action, les transhumanistes ne font pas uniquement appel à la (potentielle) faisabilité technique; ils s’appuient également sur des valeurs socialement partagées, telles que l’autodétermination, la perfectibilité humaine, l’égalité, la liberté ou la dignité. Néanmoins, la lecture qu’ils en font est parfois surprenante et rompt très souvent avec les conceptions issues de la modernité. À leur avis, le perfectionnement humain doit s’opérer par le biais des technosciences (non des institutions sociales), sur le corps même des individus (non sur l’environnement) et en vertu de leur « droit » à l’autodétermination compris comme un droit individuel d’optimiser ses capacités. De même, les technosciences doivent, disent-ils, être démocratisées afin d’en garantir l’accessibilité, de réduire les inégalités biologiques et de permettre à chacun de renforcer son sentiment d’identité et d’accomplissement. L’analyse du discours transhumaniste nous a donc permis d’observer leurs représentations du corps de même que la résonance culturelle du projet qu’ils proposent.
The current interest in NBIC research (nano-bio-info-cognitivo technologies), which are intended to optimize human capacities, points to deep-seated change in both our representation of the human body and the human-machine relationship. Again and again, the work coming out of genetic engineering, pharmacology, the biotechnologies and the nanotechnologies promises a human body that is less subject to illness, better “adapted” and, especially, more malleable. This in-laboratory construction of an improved body echoes contemporary concern about perfect health, the ageing process, inaptitude, appearance, performance, etc. To analyze the transformations this research causes in the representation of the body, we built a theoretical framework supported by studies both in the sociology of the body and in the epistemology of the sciences. Then, examining different popularized scientific documents written by transhumanist researchers—who openly advocate a radical optimization of human capacities via the technosciences—we observed that representations of the body pivot around three main axes. The human body is presented in this discourse as being informational, technologically perfectible and obsolete. This threefold representation of the body suggests that transhumanists’ plan of action (i.e. improving humans’ physical, intellectual, sensorial, emotional, etc., capacities) is an anthropological necessity. In their view, the improvement of human conditions means a controlled biological mutation (i.e., hybridization with the machine) because the body is “unadapted” to the contemporary reality. Thus, once adopted by transhumanist researchers, the possibilities of NBIC are taken to their extreme and given a peremptory tone. This actively contributes to promoting the posthuman, also called the cyborg—an individual transformed to be more robust and intelligent, to modulate its sensitivity and emotional states, and live longer, even indefinitely. Situated half-way between science and science fiction, this project is said to be “techno-prophesy” as it generates countless previsions based on current and potential technoscientific advances. To make their action plan more socially acceptable, transhumanists not only rely on its (potential) technical feasibility, but on socially shared values, such as self-determination, human perfectibility, equality, liberty and dignity. Nevertheless, their interpretation is sometimes surprising and very frequently breaks with notions that have grown out of modernity. In their opinion, human perfection must occur through the technosciences (and not via social institutions) directly on individuals’ bodies (and not on their surroundings) and according to their “right” to self-determination, which is seen as an individual’s right to optimize his or her capacities. Similarly, they maintain that the technosciences must be made democratic to guarantee accessibility, reduce biological inequalities and allow all humans to reinforce their identity and sense of accomplishment. This analysis of transhumanists’ discourse has thus allowed us to observe their representation of the body as well as the cultural resonance of the project they put forth.

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Books on the topic "Body modification culture"

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Favazza, Armando R. Bodies under siege: Self-mutilation and body modification in culture and psychiatry. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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Bodies under siege: Self-mutilation and body modification in culture and psychiatry. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.

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Bodies under siege: Self-mutilation, nonsuicidal self-injury, and body modification in culture and psychiatry. 3rd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Siebers, Tobin Anthony. The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification (RATIO: Institute for the Humanities). University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification (RATIO: Institute for the Humanities). University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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Kluchin, Rebecca. Gender, the Body, and Disability. Edited by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor and Lisa G. Materson. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190222628.013.36.

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This chapter brings together the histories of American beauty culture and disability to identify overlaps between the fields and encourage women’s and gender historians to engage disability studies in their scholarship. “Unruly bodies,” bodies that fall outside the norm because of race, ethnicity, or disability, became the object of social and cultural derision and labeled ugly, abnormal and disabled. The techniques women, surgeons, fashion designers, and beauty culturists used to manage, fix and discipline these “unruly bodies” through cosmetics, diet, exercise, surgery, and rehabilitation contain striking similarities, which this chapter explores in historical context. Although experts projected beauty ideals and medical standards onto women’s bodies, American women embraced body modifications on their own terms and imbued them with their own meanings.

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Book chapters on the topic "Body modification culture"

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Archer, Margaret S. "Friendship Between Human Beings and AI Robots?" In Robotics, AI, and Humanity, 177–89. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54173-6_15.

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AbstractIn this chapter the case for potential Robophilia is based upon the positive properties and powers deriving from humans and AI co-working together in synergy. Hence, Archer asks ‘Can Human Beings and AI Robots be Friends?’ The need to foreground social change for structure culture and agency is being stressed. Human enhancement speeded up with medical advances with artificial insertions in the body, transplants, and genetic modification. In consequence, the definition of ‘being human’ is carried further away from naturalism and human essentialism. With the growing capacities of AI robots the tables are turned and implicitly pose the question, ‘so are they not persons too?’ Robophobia dominates Robophilia, in popular imagination and academia. With AI capacities now including ‘error-detection’, ‘self-elaboration of their pre-programming’ and ‘adaptation to their environment’, they have the potential for active collaboration with humankind, in research, therapy and care. This would entail synergy or co-working between humans and AI beings.

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Marchegay, Sophie. "Making the Body Up and Over: Body Modification and Ornamentation in the Formative Huastecan Figurine Tradition of Loma Real, Tamaulipas." In Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America, 295–322. University Press of Colorado, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5876/9781607322825.c009.

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"Cyberspace and Subversion: The Creation of Culture in Steampunk and Body Modification Cyber-Communities." In Unveiling the Post-human, 41–49. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9781848881082_006.

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Murphy, Melissa S., and Haagen D. Klaus. "Transcending Conquest." In Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813060750.003.0001.

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There are twelve chapters divided into three sections: 1) life, death, and mortuary practices; 2) colonial entanglements, frontiers, and diversity; and 3) identity and the body under colonialism. The first and second sections offer a global perspective on the effects of colonialism and culture contact on community health: indigenous converts living in the frontier, peripheral towns, lower class suburbanites within major urban centers, and recent European immigrants. The contributions move beyond indigenous communities. Class, ethnicity, hybridity and contact longevity (entanglement) flesh out that colonialism was not a one-way process of cultural exchange, health decline, extirpation, or even a bad thing. The chapters’ undercurrent is resilience, with bioarchaeological data providing evidence of dietary and health changes reflecting the various degrees different communities responded and adjusted to colonialism. Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed‘ssecond accomplishment is to define bioarchaeology of colonialism that is not focused on diet, disease, and demography. Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed successfully justifies the value of diverse approaches that use body modification (Tiesler and Zabala), human skeletal morphology (Buzon and Smith, Danforth et al.,Ortiz et al., Ribot et al.), and ancient DNA (Danforth et al.) to explore what a bioarchaeology of colonialism can offer—the study of identity, hybridity, and ethnogenesis.

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Lingel, Jessa. "The Death and Life of Great Online Subcultures: An Analysis of Body Modification Ezine." In Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262036214.003.0003.

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The first field study in this book describes BME, an online platform for people interested in body modification. I describe the community’s attempts to manage membership by analysing changes to the Terms of Service. I also describe threats to BME’s community in terms of the increasing popularity of body modification as a cultural practice.

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McAnally, Heath B., Lyn Freeman, and Beth Darnall. "Putting It All Together." In Preoperative Optimization of the Chronic Pain Patient, 239–54. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190920142.003.0011.

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Joint behavioral health and medical care is required for optimal success in preoperative optimization of the chronic pain patient. This effort basically comprises lifestyle modification issues, and habit breaking and replacement do not come easily. Physical and psychological dependence on tobacco, alcohol, and opioids adds to the complexity and requires skilled and individualized intervention. Nonetheless, some basic principles, goals and a template/plan for multidimensional “baby steps” can be implemented in every case. Given that many of these variables (e.g., sleep, exercise, diet, kinesiophobia, etc.) are interdependent, such a multidimensional approach is preferred in terms of efficacy. Correspondingly, current forward-thinking charters such as the US National Pain Strategy recognize that the mainstream passivity-inducing and frequently opioid-reliant chronic pain management culture with its failure to encourage biopsychosocial-spiritual health and proactive solutions fosters dependence on reactive efforts. It is no wonder patients suffering with chronic pain in this country should pursue stronger drugs, more procedures and surgery, which in the absence of improved baseline mind-body health status all too often results in worsening of their pain syndrome and opioid dependence. The individual patient and the system at large require recalibration, focusing on what our forebears called “fitness for surgery.”

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Tiesler, Vera, and Pilar Zabala. "Survival and Abandonment of Indigenous Head-Shaping Practices in Iberian America after European Contact." In Colonized Bodies, Worlds Transformed. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813060750.003.0010.

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Tiesler and Zabala synthesize documentary evidence and osteological data to reveal a humanized history of the varied patterns of cultural resilience, adaptation, and elimination of head-shaping practices in Mesoamerica and the Andes. Throughout many regions of the pre-Hispanic Americas, a wide diversity of indigenous body modification practices combined artificial cranial deformation and other practices of identity, status, and gender. Perceived by the Spanish as a non-Western and “uncivilized” practice that was an affront to the new order in corporeal and theological terms, artificial cranial deformation was aggressively targeted for extirpation. Their analysis indicated head shaping was a vital practice of body modification that was assaulted, alienated, and sometimes transformed in creative and unexpected ways eliminated in the various Iberian strongholds of Hispanic America while progressively eliminated in more peripheral settings.

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Moll, Don, and Edward O. Moll. "Traditional Exploitation Methods, Efficiency, and Consequences for River Turtles." In The Ecology, Exploitation and Conservation of River Turtles. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195102291.003.0007.

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A wide variety of ingenious methods for collecting river turtles have been developed over time. None requires a particularly high level of technology but many require a great deal of skill, patience, and sometimes physical ability by the collectors, as well as a detailed knowledge of the ecology of the species being sought. Many parallel collecting methods have developed independently in turtle-dependent cultures around the world, leading Nicholls (1977) to state in regard to Bates’s (1863) description of an Amazonian turtle hunt, “With some allowance for small differences in technique, his descriptions provide an accurate image of turtle hunting as it was practiced anytime, anywhere, during the past thousands of years.” We thought that a summary of these techniques with comment upon their variation in different areas and with different species, their effects on populations when this can be ascertained, and examples of their practitioners would be an appropriate addition to our treatment of river turtle exploitation patterns. We will limit our discussion mainly to techniques employed by subsistence and commercial turtlers for obtaining animals and largely omit reference to the growing body of information concerning the collection of turtles for scientific purposes (many of which are largely modifications of the former techniques). For information concerning the latter category the reader is referred to the excellent summary of equipment and techniques by Plummer (1979) and papers by Carr and Marchand (1942), Chaney and Smith (1950), Legler (1960b), Ream and Ream (1966), Wahlquist (1970), Bider and Hoek (1971), Braid (1974), Robinson and Murphy (1975), MacCulloch and Gordon (1978), Iverson (1979), Petokas and Alexander (1979), Vogt (1980b), Frazer et al. (1990), Kennett (1992), Graham and Georges (1996), Jensen (1998), and Kuchling (2003b). Free diving for turtles is of course a time-honored, effective, and nearly cosmopolitan approach to collecting turtles that requires little or no equipment. While diving mask, fins and sophisticated breathing gear certainly enhance the process, they are not required by skilled divers in order to harvest large numbers of turtles.

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Conference papers on the topic "Body modification culture"

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Jakubovska, Viera. "POSTMODERN MODIFICATIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY�S IMAGING IN THE SLOVAK CULTURAL TRADITION." In SGEM 2014 Scientific SubConference on ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgemsocial2014/b31/s11.106.

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