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The Deepest Sense

A Cultural History of Touch

By: Constance Classen

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The Deepest Sense

A Cultural History of Touch

By: Constance Classen

From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, for the first time, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. The Deepest Sense: A Cultural History of Touch fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity. This intimate and sensuous approach to history makes it possible to foreground the tactile foundations of Western culture--the ways in which feelings shaped society. Constance Classen explores a variety of tactile realms including the feel of the medieval city; the tactile appeal of relics; the social histories of pain, pleasure, and affection; the bonds of touch between humans and animals; the strenuous excitement of sports such as wrestling and jousting; and the sensuous attractions of consumer culture. She delves into a range of vital issues, from the uses--and prohibitions--of touch in social interaction to the disciplining of the body by the modern state, from the changing feel of the urban landscape to the technologization of touch in modernity. Through poignant descriptions of the healing power of a medieval king's hand or the grueling conditions of a nineteenth-century prison, we find that history, far from being a dry and lifeless subject, touches us to the quick.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252094409

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The Museum of the Senses

Experiencing Art and Collections

By: Constance Classen

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The Museum of the Senses

Experiencing Art and Collections

By: Constance Classen

Traditionally sight has been the only sense with a ticket to enter the museum. The same is true of histories of art, in which artworks are often presented as purely visual objects. In The Museum of the Senses Constance Classen offers a new way of approaching the history of art through the senses, revealing how people used to handle, smell and even taste collection pieces. Topics range from the tactile power of relics to the sensuous allure of cabinets of curiosities, and from the feel of a Rembrandt to the scent of Monet's garden. The book concludes with a discussion of how contemporary museums are stimulating the senses through interactive and multimedia displays. Classen, a leading authority on the cultural history of the senses, has produced a fascinating study of sensual and emotional responses to artefacts from the middle ages to the present. The Museum of the Senses is an important read for anyone interested in the history of art as well as for students and researchers in cultural studies and museum studies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147425246X

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The Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

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The Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

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Routledge

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1134678193

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9781134678198

Aroma

The Cultural History of Smell

By: Constance Classen,David Howes,Anthony Synnott

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The Cultural History of Smell

By: Constance Classen,David Howes,Anthony Synnott

This text argues that smell is repressed in the modern West, and its social history ignored. It attempts to break the "olfactory silence" of modernity by offering an exploration of the cultural role of odours in Western history and in a wide variety of non-Western societies.

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1134822405

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The Deepest Sense

A Cultural History of Touch

By: Constance Classen

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A Cultural History of Touch

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Analysis of Healthcare Interventions that Change Patient Trajectories

By: James H. Bigelow,Katya Fonkych,Constance Fung,Jason Wang

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Analysis of Healthcare Interventions that Change Patient Trajectories

By: James H. Bigelow,Katya Fonkych,Constance Fung,Jason Wang

Examines interventions in the healthcare system that use Electronic Medical Record Systems (EMR-S) to affect patient trajectories--i.e., the sequence of encounters a patient has with the healthcare system--by improving health and thereby reducing healthcare utilization, or by reducing a costly form of utilization (e.g., inpatient stays) and increasing a more economical form (e.g., office visits to physicians, or prescription medications).

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Rand Corporation

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0833040979

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The Colour of Angels

Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

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Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

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The Color of Angels

Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination

By: Constance Classen

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Cosmology, Gender, and the Aesthetic Imagination

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Psychology Press

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0415180740

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Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

By: Constance M. Furey

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Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters

By: Constance M. Furey

This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.

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271

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Cambridge University Press

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052184987X

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9780521849876

Sports Nutrition

Minerals and Electrolytes

By: Constance Kies,Judy A. Driskell

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Sports Nutrition

Minerals and Electrolytes

By: Constance Kies,Judy A. Driskell

This book addresses the relationships of mineral and electrolyte needs and interactions to sports and exercise. There are chapters written by experts with long histories of research in this area. Chapters include descriptions of specific research projects, as well as literature reviews. Convincing evidence that exercise and sport activities do affect the mineral status of individuals is examined.

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CRC Press

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0849379164

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9780849379161

The Museum of the Senses

Experiencing Art and Collections

By: Constance Classen

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

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Ways of Sensing

Understanding the Senses In Society

By: David Howes,Constance Classen

Ways of Sensing is a stimulating exploration of the cultural, historical and political dimensions of the world of the senses. The book spans a wide range of settings and makes comparisons between different cultures and epochs, revealing the power and diversity of sensory expressions across time and space. The chapters reflect on topics such as the tactile appeal of medieval art, the healing power of Navajo sand paintings, the aesthetic blight of the modern hospital, the role of the senses in the courtroom, and the branding of sensations in the marketplace. Howes and Classen consider how political issues such as nationalism, gender equality and the treatment of minority groups are shaped by sensory practices and metaphors. They also reveal how the phenomenon of synaesthesia, or mingling of the senses, can be seen as not simply a neurological condition but a vital cultural mode of creating social and cosmic interconnections. Written by leading scholars in the field, Ways of Sensing provides readers with a valuable and engaging introduction to the life of the senses in society.

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Routledge

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1317929470

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9781317929475

Aroma

The Cultural History of Smell

By: Constance Classen,David Howes,Anthony Synnott

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The Cultural History of Smell

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Taylor & Francis

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041511473X

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