A penile implant: Embodying medical technology
30 Apr 2021-Qualitative sociology review (Uniwersytet Lodzki (University of Lodz))-Vol. 17, Iss: 2, pp 88-102
TL;DR: It is suggested that understanding how medical technology interacts with everyday meanings contributes to a wider application of the concept of habitus while expanding a symbolic interactionist perspective of the body.
Abstract: This article situates the experiences of having penile implant surgery between medical interventions and privately understood meanings and practices. Using my own experiences, supplemented with information from online sources, I document the changes that occur in the meanings and the practices that implant surgery enables. My analysis derives from the concepts of habitus and the looking glass body, and it begins with a diagnosis of impotence and moves through the various considerations that lead to surgery and its aftermaths. I suggest that understanding how medical technology interacts with everyday meanings contributes to a wider application of the concept of habitus while expanding a symbolic interactionist perspective of the body.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the sensuousities of intense embodiment experiences as a distance-running-woman and a boxing-woman, and found that heat has highly proprioceptive elements and is experienced as both a form of touch and a distinct perceptual mode.
Abstract: A video abstract introducing our article in Body & Society, utilizing sociological phenomenology to examine sensuous embodiment.
Drawing upon data from three research projects, here we explore some of the
‘sensuousities’ of ‘intense embodiment’ experiences as a distance-running-woman
and a boxing-woman, respectively. Our analysis addresses the relatively unexplored
haptic senses, particularly the ‘touch’ of heat. Heat has been argued to constitute a
specific sensory mode, a trans-boundary sense. Our findings suggest that ‘lived’
heat, in our own physical-cultural experiences, has highly proprioceptive elements
and is experienced as both a form of touch and as a distinct perceptual mode, dependent
upon context. Our analysis coheres around two key themes that emerged as
salient: (1) warming up, and (2) thermoregulation, which in lived experience were
encountered as strongly interwoven.
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TL;DR: David M Friedman delivers an academic study of the penis, remaining intellectually serious and deadpan throughout (give or take the occasional double entendre).
Abstract: David M Friedman
Robert Hale, £20, pp 368
ISBN 0 7090 7110 8
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Those after a good snigger may find themselves somewhat disappointed with this tome—it is not a lighthearted Christmas stocking filler. Friedman delivers an academic study of the penis, remaining intellectually serious and deadpan throughout (give or take the occasional double entendre). The only sense of “nudge, nudge, wink, wink” is to be found in the chapter headings—“The Demon Rod,” “The Gear Shift,” “The Measuring Stick,” “The Cigar,” “The Battering Ram,” and “The Punctureproof Balloon”—but even these turn out to be serious and academic in intent.
A Mind of its Own is educational and entertaining by virtue of an amazing amount of information gathered from a …
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