Addressing the comprehensive needs of individuals with brain injuries is a growing concern in brain injury rehabilitation as well as evaluating the efficacy of these conventional therapeutic modalities: cognitive rehabilitation, and physical, occupational, and speech therapies. Therapeutic dance/movement has not been an integral part of these core services. I have observed its potential, however, during the past thirteen years while providing this intervention to individuals with brain injuries. The focus of this dissertation was to gain a better understanding of the dynamics of a therapeutic dance/movement intervention for individuals with brain injuries by comparing it to conventional physical therapy. Physical therapy, given its longevity in providing rehabilitative services to individuals with brain injuries, afforded a means by which to more systematically explore therapeutic dance/movement. Five individuals with brain injuries were observed and analyzed as they participated in five weekly therapeutic dance/movement sessions and five weekly physical therapy sessions. Laban Movement Analysis (LMA) was used as the observation and analytic tool for the purpose of elucidating similarities and differences between the two interventions in relation to the five case studies. Two questions guided the inquiry: (a) What are the similarities and differences between a physical therapy intervention and a dance/movement intervention? and (b) What are the dynamics of a therapeutic dance/movement intervention? Findings revealed that the physical therapy intervention focused specifically on body level connectivity and single joint action movement from a <i>Body</i> perspective. In comparison, the dance/movement intervention incorporated body level connectivity in addition to the dynamics of <i>Breath/Core Support</i> and <i>Grounding</i>, <i>Effort-Life</i>, <i>Spatial Intent</i>, and Aspects of <i>Shape</i>, providing the spectrum of <i>Body</i>, <i>Effort</i>, <i>Space</i>, and <i>Shape</i> ( <i>BESS</i>) components in harmony with the <i>Movement Themes: Whole/Part, Inner/Outer, Function/Expression, Exertion/Recuperation</i>, and <i>Mobility/Stability</i>.The dance/movement intervention imparted an integrative mind-body approach to learning about one's Inner and Outer self and one's ability to cope with and connect to one's environment. Knowledge was added to the current literature at an opportune time in the brain injury rehabilitation field. Rehabilitation professionals are recognizing the need to transform current assumptions regarding the essential aspects of brain injury rehabilitation and seek additional non-medical model approaches to rehabilitation. This study offers a therapeutic modality along with a viable measurement tool that has the potential for meeting this need. Recommendations for future research are offered. / Ph. D.

The purpose of this study is to conduct an investigation of the lived experiences of asthma and sporting embodiment in non-elite sportspeople of different ages and levels of ability, involved in a range of sports. Asthma is characterised as a breathing disorder and the aim of this research is to add to embodied literature by providing ‘fleshy’ realities of the moving, sweating, sensuous sporting body, which holds meanings, purposes and interests for people who experience sport with asthma. Breathing is not only a physiological process, but it is also cultural and people may deal with their asthma symptoms in ways that reflect cultural attitudes embedded in sport. This qualitative study addresses five exploratory questions: 1) How do sportspeople experience asthma? 2) How do sportspeople negotiate their asthma and sporting identities? 3) How do emotional dimensions play a role in sportspeople’s asthma and sporting experiences? 4) How do perceptions of environment and illness shape one another by examining the relationship between the body, the self and environment? 5) What is the role of trauma in sportspeople with asthma? 6) How do key senses (sound) play a role in sportspeople’s asthma and embodied sporting experiences? Through a symbolic-interactionsist and phenomenological-inspired approach, this research places emphasis on the mind-body-self nexus in relation to sensory experiences with a focus upon the centrality of the ‘visceral’ body in the relationship between self-consciousness and the self. A bodily disruption (e.g., asthmatic attack) is likely to heighten awareness of the body-self and contingency and may amplify how sportspeople listen to their own embodied selves when engaged in sporting action. Therefore, sportspeople may become even more acutely aware of, and attuned to, their breathing in ways that link the physiological, the psychological, the social and the environment. This may lead to a permanent re-ordering/negotiation of identities (e.g., athletic identity - asthma identity) through ‘emotion work’ and ‘somatic (auditory) work’ in which a concern with the body is central. The findings are represented as a typology consisting of Conformers, Contesters and Creators, which may be used as a framework to assist health care and sporting professionals in developing more appropriate and effective rehabilitation regimes for sportspeople, in order to improve the quality of treatment and outcomes.

This paper explores the history of physical education in the United States, as well as a general look into how public schooling affects how kids learn about and come to view their bodies. Theory and research by Michel Foucault, Elias Norbert, and Katy Bowman form the theoretical framework for this essay, and accounts of visits to a local elementary school to observe PE also grounds the work in present-day experiences. The work concludes that public schools in the US improperly teach students about how to listen to and care for their bodies.

Thesis title: Reduction of body weight and body composition based on diet and movement regime Object of the thesis: Investigate whether it is possible by changing diet, adding the movement activities, to achieve weight loss and changes in body composition. The research was conducted on a sample of seven people who were selected only on the basis of his personal interest in this issue and who wanted to reach just a weight loss. The age range of this research group is 21 to 51 years. Method of the thesis: To obtain the data was during the research measuring physical parameters used bioelectrical impedance analysis. Another fact was control detection of current diet and movement regime of examined persons. The research survey was conducted anonymously, nowhere does not appear the names of participating persons. Results of the thesis: Our first task was to confirm that all probands achieve due to modified diet on the basis of model diet regime and participation on physical activities a reduction in body weight. Then it was followed by another task, which we should confirm that the proposed regime's treatment causes weight loss of 4 kg or more. The first question on the basis of the results was confirmed in part only because the weight reduction achieved 5 out of 7 probands. Similarly, the second task...

The diploma thesis focuses on the approximation of law of compensation for bodily harm and death, and evaluation of its development especially in connection with the recodification of private law. The main objective of the thesis is to provide a comprehensive overview with emphasis on the most significant changes that occurred in connection with the recodification, and its evaluation. The first chapter deals with theoretical basis of the duty to provide compensation for harm, since the formation of such a duty is a prerequisite for granting compensation. Besides the reasons that lead to the formation of the duty, individual pre-conditions of the duty are discussed as well. These pre-conditions are unlawful act, formation of the damage, causality and fault. The second chapter deals with the concept of harm which replaced the previously more often used term damage. In addition, the second chapter also includes a general introduction to the compensation for bodily harm and death, which is related to the following chapters. The third chapter is a key point of the whole thesis, as the recodification of private law influenced the most compensation of non-pecuniary damage for bodily harm and death. The principle of full compensation for suffered harm, hence the expiation of such harm according to the...

L'image du corps dessine les contours de la féminité, mais il ne semble possible d'entrevoir une expression proprement féminine qu'à travers les failles de celle-ci. Semblable à une expression incontrôlée de l'inconscient, le féminin se déploie comme le lapsus ou l'acte manqué. Pour ce faire, il semble nécessaire de passer par le rapport différent que semble entretenir une femme à la pulsion. C'est à travers une possible liaison entre pulsion et image du corps que le féminin semble s'exprimer. Aussi, l'inconscient maternel et de ce fait le regard de la mère, nécessitent une particulière attention, dans la mesure où la pulsion scopique de la mère investira différemment le corps de l'enfant fille. A travers un regard non limité par le signifiant, il sera question pour la fille d'un investissement de tout le corps et de ce fait, d'un rapport diffus et difficilement contenable d'avec la pulsion. La multiplicité des inscriptions phalliques sur le corps de la fille rend autre son rapport à l'image – le surinvestissement marque, entre autre, une fragilité. Le regard que suscite l'expression par images dénature l'appel au féminin qui ne peut s'articuler que dans l'absence du dire. Le nouvel impératif social paraît difficilement s'articuler à l'enracinement du discours familial ; il est pourtant possible d'entrevoir une inhibition de la pensée par le biais d'un surplus d'images sans référant. / It's through the body image that the femininity contours draws itself but, it seems possible to catch a glimpse of feminine expression only through the flaw or the rift of it. Similar to the uncontrolled expression of the unconscious, feminine expression displays itself like the slip of the tongue or the parapraxis. Consequently, it seems necessary to point the different relation a woman maintains to her drives. It's through a potential link between drive and body image that the feminine expression seems to take place. To do so, maternal unconscious and the mother's look requires particular attention; insofar as, the mother's optic drive will be differently investing a girl child body. Through a look non-limited by the signifier, it will be question for the girl to invest her whole body and this will lead her to a diffuse and hardly containable relation to her own drive. The multiplicity of phallic inscriptions on the girl's body renders differently her relation to images – the overinvestment signs, beside all, fragility. The look that the expression by images sparks off distorts the feminine call, which can only rise in the absence of words and sayings. The new social requirement seems hardly articulate itself with the roots of familial discourse; it is, though, possible to glimpse the inhibition of thoughts by the way images are overinvested.

This thesis deals with the conception of compensation for bodily harm arisen from industrial injuries or occupational diseases. Recently, it was decided bodily harm of employees continues to be compensate by the employer under his objective liability for damages. The main aim of the thesis is to describe current legislation in the Labour Code and to compare it with the general bodily harm compensation legislation in the Civil Code. The thesis is divided into 7 chapters. The first chapter defines the concept of bodily harm and its specifics. The second chapter brings brief insight into the field of the international law, especially focuses on the conventions of the International Labour Organization which provides minimum standards of the compensation for industrial injuries and occupational diseases. In the third chapter follows short excursion into the European law, focused primarily on providing compensation to the migrant workers within the European Union. The fourth chapter describes historical development of compensation for bodily harm arisen from industrial injuries or occupational diseases in legislation since the Industrial Revolution until recent past. Fifth chapter is already fully focused on the main issue of this thesis - analysis of the current legislation of compensation for bodily...

Civil Liability for Bodily Injury in Medical Disputes The aim of this thesis is to map and analyze civil liability for bodily injury caused to a patient while providing health care. This topic is specific and current, especially considering the fact that the new Civil Code came into effect on 1. 1. 2014. Where required, there is comparison between the current and previous legislation. This thesis also offers a glimpse into the German legal system and features institutes similar to ones in the Czech legal system as well as institutes the Czech legal system does not offer. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter describes domestic legislation with elements of medicine. This includes sources of law that have the form of law, professional rules and case law. The second chapter deals with civil liability in the health sector and its individual cases that lie in the objective liability of the health care provider. At the same time, contractual and and tort liability is pointed out. The third chapter discusses the elements of civil liability and further maps out and takes into account its individual attributes, that are necessary to form civil liability. The third chapter also further examines non-lege artis procedures that result in said bodily injury. This chapter marginally looks...

O presente trabalho relata a trajetória de uma pesquisa qualitativa inspirada na perspectiva de investigação-ação, que discutiu as práticas corporais presentes no parque de uma Escola Municipal de Educação Infantil da Cidade de São Paulo. Com o objetivo de problematizar como as manifestações culturais aparecem neste espaço e investigar outras possibilidades, buscou-se uma aproximação das práticas legitimadas na unidade, da cultura das crianças e professoras e do currículo e concepções que embasavam as ações docentes. Como referencial teórico baseou-se nas chamadas teorias pós-críticas, especialmente na perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais e do Multiculturalismo crítico, representados por escritos de Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Marcos Neira e Tomás Tadeu Silva. No que se refere à formação de professores, as principais fontes de pesquisa foram Andy Hargreaves, Júlia Oliveira-Fomosinho, Tizuko M. Kishimoto e Mônica A. Pinazza. A inserção no contexto pesquisado se deu através de um projeto de formação para professores, acompanhado de intervenção direta com as crianças, em paralelo, envolvendo duas professoras e seus respectivos grupos. A proposta da formação, construída com as participantes, ocupou um espaço já institucionalizado na escola para o estudo: O Projeto Especial de Ação (PEA), que complementa a jornada dos professores que optam por este estudo coletivo, cujo tema é escolhido anual pelo grupo participante. No primeiro semestre foi realizada a observação das práticas dos grupos, sem intervenção formalizada e no segundo semestre realizaram-se os projetos de formação e acompanhamento de práticas propostos pela pesquisa. O desenvolvimento do trabalho possibilitou a discussão da função escolar no âmbito da formação do sujeito, conceito de cultura e suas manifestações na centralidade das relações, configuração de identidades e diferenças dos indivíduos dentro das instituições, em especial a escolar e as concepções embutidas nas práticas corporais legitimadas pela unidade educacional. O processo vivenciado na pesquisa aponta para a relevância de se constituírem programas de formação contextualizados que mobilizem reflexões sobre as práticas, de modo a transformá-las em favor da qualidade da educação infantil. Evidenciou ainda que um olhar para as práticas corporais na perspectiva cultural amplia a compreensão das diferenças e das possíveis partilhas de vivências no plano relacional, constitutivas de uma educação infantil que se pretende democrática. / The present work describes the trajectory of a qualitative research inspired on the perspective of action-investigation, which discussed the body practices present in the park of a Municipal Early Childhood Education School in the city of São Paulo. Aiming to problematize how the cultural manifestations are presented in this type of place and investigating other possibilities, we tried to come close to the practices already established in the school, the culture of the children and teachers and the curriculum and the concepts that grounded the educators actions. As the theoretical referential was based on the post critical theories, especially on the perspective of Cultural Studies and of critical Multiculturalism, represented by the writings of Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Marcos Neira and Tomás Tadeu Silva. As for the training of teachers, the main sources of research were Andy Hargreaves, Júlia Oliveira-Fomosinho, Tizuko M.Kishimoto and Mônica A. Pinazza. The insertion on researched context was possible through a teacher training project, followed by direct intervention with the children, and in parallel, involving two teachers and their respective groups. The proposal of training that was constructed with the participants took place within a project that is already institutionalized at the early childhood education school for the study: The Projeto Especial de Ação (PEA), which complements the journey of teachers who choose this group study for which the theme is chosen annually by the participant group. The observation of the practices of the groups took place in the first semester without formal intervention and in the second semester there were the training project and follow-up of the practices proposed in the research. The development of the work enabled the discussion of the purpose of the early childhood education school in the education of the individual, concept of culture and its manifestations in relationships, configuration of identities and differences among individuals within institutions, especially school and the concepts built-in the legitimate body practices according to the educational institution. The process in the research points to the importance of constituting programs of contextualized training that encourage reflections on the practices, so that they are transformed in favor of the quality of childrens education. It was clear that a view on the body practices in the cultural perspective broadens the comprehension of the differences and the possible sharing of experiences within the established relationships, in childrens education that is supposed to be democratic.

Nesta dissertação discuto a Festa do Coco e a prática do coco de roda, realizadas todo último sábado de cada mês pelas comunidades quilombolas Ipiranga e Gurugi, pertencentes ao município paraibano do Conde. Tive como objetivo evidenciar as transformações ocorridas na Festa do Coco e na brincadeira de coco de roda durante o período de visitas, entre julho de 2013 e maio de 2016, a partir da análise dos acontecimentos registrados nos diários de campo escritos por mim. No decorrer das primeiras visitas realizadas, levantei a hipótese de que a Festa do Coco não é um espaço de reprodução de uma prática realizada no passado, mas um espaço de produção de acontecimentos e de criação de outras formas de negociação entre os corpos participantes. Uma das perguntas que mais me interessavam era entender o que fazia com que diferentes pessoas, moradoras do quilombo ou não, vindas de diferentes locais da Paraíba e do Brasil, desejassem estar na festa, mesmo esta acontecendo em um barracão pequeno, dentro da comunidade quilombola Ipiranga, e sem nenhum apelo midiático sobre o evento. Os procedimentos de pesquisa delinearam-se no processo de realização da mesma: assumi, para o trabalho de campo, uma participação observante, por meio da qual pude ser mais uma brincante da festa e me deixar ser levada pelas suas linhas de força, seus fluxos. A cada festa eu escrevia diários de campo, focando-me nas experiências vividas e percebidas durante a festa. Minhas apostas teóricas se deram nos registros das filosofias da diferença, e em especial no registro deleuziano-guattariano, e da Antropologia da Performance, que discutem as práticas coletivas num registro do acontecimento, da performance e da criação. Esta dissertação traz então o conceito deleuziano de acontecimento como um dos conceitos chave para entender as transformações ocorridas nas festas e o interesse dos visitantes que procuram a festa: produzir acontecimentos. O participante da festa deseja estabelecer agenciamentos, formas de se conectar, de se relacionar com outros corpos e gerar novidade, criar. Dentre esses agenciamentos, a corponegociação se dá como um dos mais significativos. O conceito, criado por mim para esta pesquisa, surge através da brincadeira realizada no centro da roda de coco, onde o corpo negocia e cria sem o uso da produção verbal; o improviso é gerado pela contaminação dos diferentes repertórios de movimentos / In this dissertation I discuss the Festa do Coco and the practice known as the Coco de Roda, held every last Saturday of each month by the quilombola communities of Ipiranga and Gurugi, belonging to the municipality of Conde in the Brazilian state of Paraiba. I aimed to focus on the transformations that took place in the Festa do Coco and the Coco de Roda during visits between 2013 july and 2016 may. The experiences where recorded in the field diaries I wrote whilst visiting and analyzed on return to São Paulo in the wake of each party. During the first visits, I developed the hypothesis that the Festa do Coco is not the staging of a traditional or historical practice, but a space which allows for the creation of events and the production of alternate forms of negotiation amongst participating bodies. One of the issues that intrigued me most was what drew different people, people within or without the quilombola community, coming from different parts of Paraíba and Brazil, to the Festa do Coco: a party which took place in a small shed, inside the quilombola community of Ipiranga, without any mediatic appeal or visibility. In the process, I assumed a methodology which would allow me to be part of the party, to be taken by the forces at play in each celebration. After each party, I worked on the field diaries, focusing on the experiences and impressions derived from the celebration. My theoretical bets inscribed within the Philosophies of Differences, theorized by Deleuze and Guattari in special, and Performance Anthropology, which discuss collective practices in terms of event, performance and creation. This dissertation thus takes the Deleuzian idea of event as one of the key concepts to understand the transformations occurring at the Festa do Coco and the interest of visitors who seek to experience it and partake in the production of an event. The party participant wants to establish agencies, connections, to relate to other bodies and generate newness. Among these assemblages, bodily-negotiation is most significant. This concept, coined by myself for this research, refers to the events that take place at the epicenter of the Roda do Coco, in the middle of the ring formed by the other players, where the body negotiates and creates without the use of verbal production and different repertories of movements contaminate each other