She tackles the big questions surrounding: identity in a time of mass, overpowering consumerism; privacy in an era of surveillance; the interfacing of humans and machines; the relationship between real and virtual worlds; and new bio-ethics surrounding practices such as growing parts
of the human body from DNA samples.
Iwasaki explains: «I made several works
of the human body from wood before my current Torso works.
She tackles the big questions surrounding: identity in a time of consumerism; privacy in a era of surveillance; the interfacing of humans and machines; the relationship between real and virtual worlds; and growing parts
of the human body from DNA samples.
Lassnig's self - portraits are familiar having been fortunate to see last year's exhibition at Tate Liverpool (2016), in which her reflective Baconian paintings address the ageing process, the passing of time and the fragility
of the human body from a feminist perspective.
2000 Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, UK Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science
of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Diabetes is looked upon as a medical condition that can damage any and all internal organ
of the human body from the teeth in your mouth to your precious eyes and quality of vision.
Diabetes is looked upon as a high risk medical condition that can damage any and all internal organ
of the human body from the teeth in your mouth to your precious eyes and quality of vision.
Not exact matches
The Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation announced yesterday that it was presenting its prestigious 2017 Lasker - DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award to a pair
of National Cancer Institute researchers, Douglas Lowy and John Schiller, who created a vaccine to prevent
human papilloma virus, or HPV,
from taking hold in the
body.
A former health care investment analyst with a degree in biology
from Yale University and current CEO
of the company, Wojcicki is fascinated by the mysteries
of the genome and what it can reveal about the
human body.
Already, Qualcomm (QCOM) and Intel (INTC) have introduced new biometic security technology that would use readings
from the
human body — such as a fingerprint or a facial reading — to allow access to devices instead
of traditional passwords.
Such models can recreate the complex layers
of tissue in the
human body to study a practically infinite number
of grievous wounds
from all angles, speeds, and styles
of bullets (or even shrapnel
from mines and improvised explosive devices).
While mindful
of the negative connotations that might arise
from manufacturing
body parts and implanting them, cyborg style, in
humans, he doubts someone on a waiting list for a new kidney and requiring daily dialysis would have such qualms.
It's early days for all parties and each one still needs to address questions like how this type
of rapid acceleration might affect the
human body, how to prevent passengers
from getting trapped in capsules inside the system, deceleration techniques, and how to manage traffic.
For instance, Hamid speculates about a future political order, based on pure democratic assemblies: «How this assembly would coexist with other preexisting
bodies of government was as yet undecided... [U] nlike those other entities for which some
humans were not
human enough to exercise suffrage, this new assembly would speak
from the will
of all the people, and in the face
of that will, it was hoped, greater justice might be less easily denied.»
So whether the
human body was specially created or developed, Catholics are required to hold as a matter
of Catholic faith that the
human SOUL is specially created; it did not evolve, and it is not inherited
from our parents, as our physical
bodies are.
But I want to respond to people throwing out examples such as: The
human body is too complex to have formed
from evolution or where did the universe come
from, both must have come
from god because none
of you can explain it.
The concept
of international
human rights
from which no country is exempt is consonant with the idea that Shari'a, the large
body of legal tradition that informs the Muslim community about how God requires it to live, is in some sense the rule
of God.
Participants in the conversation
from all walks
of life should seek to describe authentic
human fulfillment and propose safeguards against the many opportunities for abuse, until a
body of principles and a consensus about the best applications
of genetic knowledge emerge.
But I would like to highlight one crucial aspect
of Nat's
body of work that obituary writers in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, and other mainstream media outlets (though not First Things) woefully downplayed: Nat stood steadfastly — sometimes at great professional and personal cost — for the sanctity and equality
of human life
from conception to natural death.
This mystery
of human selfhood, with its connection to but also its freedom
from the
body, is the best evidence I know for the presence
of transcendence in our world.
For instance, the steady destruction
of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water
bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions
of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change
from rugged self - sufficient
human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.
In contrast the pamphlet proposes that far
from diminishing the relevance
of the
human body, matter - energy has its fullest meaning and highest dignity in its relation to the soul.
A moment
of human experience is largely constituted by its inclusion
of elements
of previous experience, elements derived
from the
body, and elements derived
from the larger world.
Yet in creating
human beings with
bodies formed
from the unfolding
of matter in cosmic development, God the Son committed himself
from all eternity to become Man according to the Father's will.
The
human body comes about
from the seed and egg
of parents in common with other animals, but the soul is created immediately by God's loving command and wise, eternal will.
The notion
of women's autonomy» including absolute control over our own
bodies» leaves us with an unrealistic sense
of human power and an exaggerated sense
of independence
from the consequences
of our attitudes and actions.
And now in the heart
of the whirling cloud a light was growing, a light in which there was the tenderness and the mobility
of a
human glance; and
from it there spread a warmth which was not now like the harsh heat radiating
from a furnace but like the opulent warmth which emanates
from a
human body.
If this is the case, it follows that there can be no soul apart
from a
body, and that in particular the death
of a
human being involves the disintegration
of the whole organism, including its organizing principle, the soul.
For the saving love
of God to be present to
human beings it would have to be so in a way different
from how it is present to other aspects
of the
body of the world — in a way in keeping with the peculiar kind
of creatures we are, namely, creatures with a special kind
of freedom, able to participate self - consciously (as well as be influenced unconsciously) in an evolutionary process.
By the deliberate choice
of evil, the first generation
of human beings did not just lose «preternatural gifts», they tore themselves away
from their true source
of control and direction, damaging their own integration and ontological harmony as creatures
of body and soul.
Alfred North Whitehead brilliantly defines the
human body as the primary field
of human expression.14 So every bodily action becomes symbolically the incarnation
of a
human attitude in the whole gamut
from ecstatic fulfilment to boredom and despair.
Indeed, the classical Aristotelian nature and the Christian idea
of the
human being as
body and soul united as an indivisible and integrated whole are excluded
from the outset.
De Santiago considers the meaning
of shame as a reaction that protects us
from lust, so that our respect for the
human person is enhanced and we can value the nuptial meaning
of the
body.
When a women eliminates a clump
of living,
human cells
from a part
of her
body she is doing it because those cells are a part
of her
body that she doesn't want.
Man's
body is formed
from the dust
of the earth, but the soul is created by an individual act
of God, at which moment the new
human person comes into being.
The Wrestler and Black Swan both explored embodiment, and painfully, graphically exposed what happens when we objectify and abstract
bodies (male and female)
from their connection to the rest
of the
human.
Some feel it reflects a negative valuation
of human sexuality based on the dualism
of Hellenistic thought, which saw salvation as a freeing
of the soul
from the
body, rather than the biblical tradition which affirms the goodness
of the whole creation.
Thereby the living power
of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in
human experience into the dead
body of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death
of selfhood unveils the ground
of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature
from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution
of natural virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization
of the self - annihilation
of God.
Also
human beings are made in the image and likeness
of God, we can know and love, through the power
of our spiritual soul - we are very different
from animals, not in our physical
bodies but in our souls.
Yet, if his
body was raised physically
from the grave and did not see corruption, or if his
body was transformed after death into something different, in such a way that in itself it was annihilated, then he did not experience the whole
of our
human destiny.
If we disconnect the experience
of sexual pleasure
from the moment
of giving ourselves for another, to another in love, we fundamentally distort the meaning
of the
human body in its sexual dimension.
Finally, as Blake envisioned, it is the
human body of Christ who negated the God who is present in the memory
of the past, and only when the Christian has wholly been delivered
from remembrance and recollection will he be open to the Word that is fully incarnate in the present.
Lets see; worship a naked jew nailed to a piece
of wood —
human sacrifice — ,... eat the
body and drink the blood - cannibalism — ... and hang gruesome parts
of peoples
bodies from jars for hundreds
of years.
Ted, our ancestors in Britain were at first barbarians, some
of them cannibals whose relish for certain choice portions
of human bodies, like well - cooked male buttocks and female breasts, is in the historic record, and it was Christian missionaries who saved our forebears
from their savagery.
What I gleaned
from these pages, in part, is that for Kierkegaard the roots
of the comic lie in the inherent contradictoriness
of human nature: soul and
body, freedom and necessity, the angelic and the bestial, eternity and temporality, and so on.
All sexually reproducing organisms have pairs
of chromosomes in all
body cells (
humans have 23 chromosome pairs), one chromosome
of each pair inherited
from the father and one
from the mother.
The molecules comprising the
human body exist within a deterministic framework, for «the future state
of the molecule could be calculated
from a knowledge
of its past and present history within the system» (PW 233/258).
@child: in that situation it's called adrenaline: wonder drug
from your adrenal gland that permits amazing feats during times
of «fight or flight» mothers have been known to flip cars when their children were trapped under them due to the surge
of body strength adrenaline gives the
human body.
They are equal in being
human, mortal, possessed
of body and mind — but
from these elemental equalities no significant direction for conduct follows.
The research adds to a growing
body of evidence that runs counter to the popular perception that there was a linear evolution
from early primates to modern
humans.