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Study defines how philosophy can change the understanding of pain ANI | Updated: Apr 25, 2021 10:42 IST
Bochum [Germany], April 25 (ANI): Researchers have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about pain and its management. The researchers advocate not merely reducing chronic pain management to searching and treating underlying physical changes but instead adopting an approach that focuses on the person as a whole.
Dr Sabrina Coninx from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum and Dr Peter Stilwell from McGill University, Canada, have investigated how philosophical approaches can be used to think in new ways about pain and its management. The researchers advocate not merely reducing chronic pain management to searching and treating underlying physical changes but instead adopting an approach that focuses on the person as a whole.
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Faculty and Staff Briefs: January 2021
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Gregory J. Harris, Ph.D. (College of Human Sciences) and
Earl Levison (Student Affairs) were recently selected as recipients of the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award presented by the FSU Division of Student Affairs and the Center for Leadership and Social Change. The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award was established in 1986 to honor a faculty member, administrator or staff member for their outstanding service in keeping with the principles and ideals of Dr. King. The honor also comes with a $1,000 stipend.
Winter is taking hold and we’re all stuck inside about as often as we’ve ever been, and probably less pleased about it than we’ve ever been. The world outside is
How Antony Gormley s failed Buddhist monkhood turned him into the world s best sculptor
The man behind the Angel of the North has a highly unusual CV
Antony Gormley
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“Look!” said Antony Gormley, “The splicing of the figures is genius! The female figure begins to look as if she belongs to the air, you begin to think maybe he’s just caught her as she was flying past!” We were in the middle of Florence on a bright spring afternoon, looking at The Rape of the Sabine Women, an amazingly complex, convoluted 16th-century marble carving by Giambologna.
It stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi, to one side of the Piazza della Signoria, in a place that any visitor to the city will pass. I’d walked by this masterpiece many times, and glanced at it quite often, but I’d never seen it as I was then: through the eyes of a sculptor. That was the point of the exercise.