The Culture of Organs
Author : Alexis Carrel
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Alexis Carrel
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,48 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Farzad Sharifian
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110199106
One of the central themes in cognitive linguistics is the uniquely human development of some higher potential called the "mind" and, more particularly, the intertwining of body and mind, which has come to be known as embodiment. Several books and volumes have explored this theme in length. However, the interaction between culture, body and language has not received the due attention that it deserves. Naturally, any serious exploration of the interface between body, language and culture would require an analytical tool that would capture the ways in which different cultural groups conceptualize their feelings, thinking, and other experiences in relation to body and language. A well-established notion that appears to be promising in this direction is that of cultural models, constituting the building blocks of a group's cultural cognition. The volume results from an attempt to bring together a group of scholars from various language backgrounds to make a collective attempt to explore the relationship between body, language and culture by focusing on conceptualizations of the heart and other internal body organs across a number of languages. The general aim of this venture is to explore (a) the ways in which internal body organs have been employed in different languages to conceptualize human experiences such as emotions and/or workings of the mind, and (b) the cultural models that appear to account for the observed similarities as well as differences of the various conceptualizations of internal body organs. The volume as a whole engages not only with linguistic analyses of terms that refer to internal body organs across different languages but also with the origin of the cultural models that are associated with internal body organs in different cultural systems, such as ethnomedical and religious traditions. Some contributions also discuss their findings in relations to some philosophical doctrines that have addressed the relationship between mind, body, and language, such as that of Descartes.
Author : Dennis G. Waring
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,99 MB
Release : 2002-07-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780819565082
How a 19th century instrument helped to shape New World culture.
Author : Jamie A. Davies
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 012812637X
Organs and Mini-Organs combines contributions from leading practitioners who work under the editorial control of an acclaimed researcher who also served for eight years as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Organogenesis, the first journal on this topic. The book begins with an introduction, but then delves into chapters that present advice on how to make organoids for many systems. In addition, case studies that illustrate the uses of organioids are presented, along with discussions on future directions and specific problems that need to be solved. - Collects the best protocols of organoid cultures from diverse tissues - Covers a wide range of organs - Includes troubleshooting cases for common, but specific problems for each culture conditions - Provides an entire section on the application of organoids
Author : Kieran Healy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226322386
More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual—often anonymous—may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent—contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor’s altruism or the size of a financial incentive.
Author : Cathy Waldby
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780822337706
DIVA cultural studies account of how the "bio-value" of blood, stem cells, organs, and cell lines moves back and forth between 'gift' and 'commodity'./div
Author : Oluf Gamborg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642790488
This manual provides all relevant protocols for basic and applied plant cell and molecular technologies, such as histology, electron microscopy, cytology, virus diagnosis, gene transfer and PCR. Also included are chapters on laboratory facilities, operation and management as well as a glossary and all the information needed to set up and carry out any of the procedures without having to use other resource books. It is especially designed for professionals and advanced students who wish to acquire practical skills and first-hand experience in plant biotechnology.
Author : R.L.M Pierik
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401157502
In Vitro Culture of Higher Plants presents an up-to-date and wide- ranging account of the techniques and applications, and has primarily been written in response to practical problems. Special attention has been paid to the educational aspects. Typical methodological aspects are given in the first part: laboratory set-up, composition and preparation of media, sterilization of media and plant material, isolation and (sub)culture, mechanization, the influence of plant and environmental factors on growth and development, the transfer from test-tube to soil, aids to study. The question of why in vitro culture is practised is covered in the second part: embryo culture, germination of orchid seeds, mericloning of orchids, production of disease-free plants, vegetative propagation, somaclonal variation, test-tube fertilization, haploids, genetic manipulation, other applications in phytopathology and plant breeding, secondary metabolites.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cells
ISBN : 9780815332183
Author : Aslihan Sanal
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822349124
An ethnographic analysis of organ transplantation in Turkey, based on the stories of kidney-transplant patients and physicians in Istanbul.