Abstract As most philosophers recognize, the body’s central role in touch differs from it plays other sense modalities. Any account of must then explain pivotal nature involvement touch. Unlike accounts touch, this paper argues that centrality is not phenomenological or experiential: body felt any special way tactile experiences. Building on Aristotle’s De Anima, I argue because medium percepti...

Background In many countries worldwide, heavy drinking can cause harm not only to drinkers but also to those around them. Objective To examine the prevalence and predictors of secondhand effects of alcohol use among students in Vietnam. Design In this cross-sectional study, a multistage sampling strategy was used to select 6,011 students (from the first to final study year) of 12 universities/f...

The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes sense indeterminateness it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein Baghdad , war Frankenfiction. It stages horror chronicle national disintegration through rise sewn-together zombie mark appalling arrival Iraqi dissenter...

For more than 125 years, it has been known that the RES, macrophages and the innate immune system play fundamental roles in host defense against pathogenic infections, trauma, hemorrhage, and combined injuries. Some years ago, we and others reported that the RES-macrophage system was intimately connected to resistance to these bodily stressors, among other injuries. We tested the hypothesis tha...

Body perception can be altered in individuals with schizophrenia resulting experiences of undefined boundaries, loss ownership, and size changes. These may also more susceptible to the rubber hand illusion (RHI: an body that induced neurotypical populations), but findings are mixed. Furthermore, multisensory timing, which is thought fundamental for perception, schizophrenia. We tested whether t...

most of the theologians and muslim philosophers, at least in accordance with tradition and narrative, believe in bodily resurrection as a necessary faith; but they have different conceptualizations of the “body of resurrection” such as: elemental body, heavenly body, intermediary body and imaginary body. the presentation of these conceptualizations will help us to find guidelines for more accur...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether bodily pain is increased in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) and if bodily pain improves following endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). METHODS All studies reporting results of more than 10 adult patients analyzing the response of bodily pain to ESS were retrieved by searching MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane databases, and additional web-based so...

In this paper I examine William James' concept of the 'warmth and intimacy' of bodily self-consciousness and relate it to recent attempts to recast bodily self-consciousness in strictly neural terms. James takes bodily 'warmth and intimacy' to solve a number of problems related to the material and spiritual aspects of self and personal identity. He mentions but does not fully explore the possib...

Different basic emotions (anger, fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, and surprise) are consistently associated with distinct bodily sensation maps, which may underlie subjectively felt emotions. Here we investigated the development of bodily sensations associated with basic emotions in 6- to 17-year-old children and adolescents (n = 331). Children as young as 6 years of age associated statistica...

Vulvodynia in young women is a significant clinical challenge. This overview focuses on localized provoked vulvodynia (LPV) with regard to medical and physical predictors of the condition. Several causative factors have been proposed and one major conceptual issue is the role of inflammation. Trauma to the vestibular mucosa causes an initial inflammatory response which may result in peripheral ...