...This chapter traces the long history of philosophy and health, showing how ideas about healing, knowledge, and the body have evolved together. Beginning in ancient Greece, it explores how myth and philosophy shaped medicine’s earliest ethical questions. The chapter moves through medieval...

... to begin again. Decolonizing as an ever-beginning brings four intertwined aspects: (1) the land, (2) the body, (3) the ethics, and (4) the politics. Together, these continue to transform us profoundly and might offer some hope for new beginnings toward decolonizing the colonial legacy of our fields...

... of punitive power in the region. This strange existence of corporal punishment as permitted and forbidden violence ends up by legitimizing the punishment of the inmates in their physical body and their existence as a subject of law. This juxtaposition places prisoners’ bodies “betwixt and between” the natural...

... of fitness activities by the postcolonial state signifies the centrality of the body in disciplining docile and inactive individuals to produce fit and active citizens. Such a population-based approach has often raised concerns about social and spatial justice and expressions of identity, liberty...

... that the professionalisation of women’s sport is indispensable to unlocking its potential and doing justice to the players and other stakeholders who continue to pursue it despite manifold challenges. Women’s football Goa decolonisation professionalisation body Introduction The trajectory of football in Goa is entrenched...

...Abstract In this photo-essay, I engage with bodies in swimwear in both posed and candid fashion. Seeking out models, I put out an open call in my social media that I was looking for subjects who felt comfortable being photographed in their swimwear, without the angle of sexiness. I wanted...

... by managing their appearances. Hannah (19) explained that the impact of being misgendered on her sense of identity was so great that, not unlike many of the women in this study, she introduced new body work practices and increased the frequency in which she practiced existing body work strategies during hair...

... could not sustain me. I had myself to blame because I knew that I was not living right in mind, body, and spirit. The family that I created became my only hope of living and continuing to dream of bigger things in the world. Transitioning to The Ohio State University to pursue a PhD degree was one...

..., in particular fitness training, and what does it mean vis-à-vis the body image that is promoted in this environment? Does it even relate to fitness or sport? How do prison authorities regulate or prevent prisoners' AAS use? This empirical study is based on 28 interviews with 19 inmates and nine staff members...

... action star. After all, names such as Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Statham have become inextricably linked to the genre in question. While there is much to consider here in relation to the muscles and power of these hard-bodied heroes in sweaty vests or form fitting t-shirts, there is another iteration...

...Abstract I write my way into Kathy Charmaz' biography, offering an ode to her life-long, to project bring the mind, body, and self of the researcher, OT therapist and the chronically ill person together in the interpretive process. Biography body emotion identity illness mind Prologue I want...

...Abstract Height, weight, fingerprints: the body is, as is well known, an important marker of identity. However, since the 1980s and 1990s, it has provided new services to the process of attesting individual identities. During this period, the development of molecular biology created new means...

... technologies infertility gender body modality of relationship temporality By briefly exploring the human and social sciences literature on reproductive technologies since the first In-vitro fertilization (IVF) births, it is possible to observe that the experience of male infertility has long been...

...Abstract This chapter sets out to explore consumer-centred experiential luxury from the perspective of a human body. We focus on the various practices related to a yoga retreat holiday experience in luxury hotel premises, such as encounters with hotel facilities, employees, nature and atmosphere...

... since the mid-twentieth century, it is possible to unveil the dynamics of a reduction of the subject to a productive-biological body in the last decades. This chapter thinks through what happens to the equation ‘body-world’ through the critical genealogy of affect and its relation to diagnoses...

..., and how that healing occurs in particular spaces. In reflection of the impacts of insidious traumas on both the body and mind, this paper radically re-centers the body to consider the potential for healing through movement. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with t/gnc people on their engagement...

...Abstract How do we write from the sensory body in ways that can convey the lived experience of the researcher and the researched, which can allow other researchers to make sense of their lived experience as well? What alternative writings could transform disembodied academia through dialogue...

... of ‘experiential learning’ and therefore draws on ‘a constructivist pedagogy whereby the learners construct their own view of the world based on personal experience’ (ibid.). There is already an extensive body of work dedicated to arguing for the value of the many different kinds of activities that comprise...

...Since slavery times, Black female bodies have captured the Western mind as liminal entities, dehumanized and brutalized by the infamous slave codes. The victimized body of Black women was inscribed by both patriarchal and colonial violence, commodified and fragmented at its convenience. However...

... and the advent of the era of “football politics”; and lastly, the body, bodywork, formal/informal sport activities, and gym culture with a microsociological perspective. However, despite their sociological relevance, these topics have had no regular, substantial development. They constitute separate fields...