Health knowledge made personal
Please enter a search word or phrase.
The search word cannot have more than 100 characteres.
Material Substance - Articles
The materiality and sensuousness of fat
by
Thomas S.
Posted
Wed 23 Feb 2011 4:32am
Very interesting stuff for our forthcoming exhibition on obesity — the planned special issue on the materiality of fat edited by Christopher E. Forth at the University of Kansas for the Journal of Material Culture in 2012.
“The Materiality of Fat” is inspired – but in no way limited – by the problem of “obesity” as the master pathology ...
Read on »
The materialization of life itself
by
Thomas S.
Posted
Tue 01 Sep 2009 3:51pm
I just finished an application for a 2-year postdoc position with The Danish Council for Independent Research, entitled Materializing life – protein science and philosophy in the post-genomic age. The project aims to combine studies of protein research with recent philosophical thinking on materiality, and should hopefully be a way of developing ...
Read on »
Homeopathic treatment and coffee ...
by
Sarah W.


Posted
Thu 23 Oct 2008 9:52pm
Homeopathic treatment and coffee
Traditionally, homeopaths have often asked patients to quit coffee while taking homeopathic remedies, warning that coffee-drinking may antidote their treatment.
At Phoenix, we try not to be too prescriptive about this, reasoning that if the patient’s vital energy has already reacted to the stimulus of the ...
Read on »
How does energy medicine work?
by
Dr. Joe Rozencwajg
Posted
Mon 22 Sep 2008 5:37pm
Ever wondered how the information from remedies, medications, acupuncture needles,or other forms of therapies is transmitted to the proper receptor? Here is what I wrote about that last year....
Transmission of energetic information in the body: its relevance to homeopathic remedies and to other energetic healing approaches.
No matter how ...
Read on »
Collecting and gathering as world-making and claim-staking
by
Thomas S.
Posted
Sun 08 Mar 2009 3:40pm
Collecting in museums runs the risk of becoming a rather pedestrian and academically uninteresting activity unless informed by and contributing to some wider theoretical perspectives. The one-day interdisciplinary conference on ‘Collecting and Gathering: Making Worlds and Staking Claims’ at Columbia University, 23 May, might be helpful to develop ...
Read on »
Prasadam from the Temple
by
Niyaprakash
Posted
Sat 13 Sep 2008 11:46pm
Prasāda (Sanskrit: प्रसाद), marathi :प्रसाद prasād/prashad (Hindi), Prasāda in (Kannada), prasādam (Tamil), or prasadam (Telugu) is both a mental condition of generosity, as well as a material substance that is first offered to a deity (in Hinduism) and then consumed (Hinduism and Sikhism).
Literally, a gracious gift. Anything, usually edib ...
Read on »
Jordan Heels is usually mobile phones think about in addition to affect
by
brave8543
Posted
Tue 14 May 2013 9:11am
Jordan Heels is usually mobile phones think about in addition to affect. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner solid posture from your renminbi and consequently regardless of whether the States would be likely to implement punitive charges directly on The chinese? Within your RMB trade level conditions, what precisely rests forwards and backwards sho ...
Read on »