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What is the most complex machine on earth? The human body! With Inside the Human Body, we'll peel back the layers to take a look inside this amazing machine and learn the basic anatomy of the human body and its bones, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, and organs. STEM activities, text-to-self and text-to-world connections, links to online resources, and fascinating trivia make learning applicable and fundamental.

Cover -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgment -- Introduction Alice Hall -- 1 Affect Alexandra Kingston-Reese -- 2 Ecocriticism Timothy C. Baker -- 3 Medical Humanities Marie Allitt -- 4 Electronic Literature Elizabeth Losh -- 5 Gender and Feminism Boriana Alexandrova -- 6 Race and Post-colonialism Rebekah Cumpsty -- 7 Disability Susannah B. Mintz -- 8 Aging and Old Age J. Brooks Bouson -- 9 The Posthuman Luna Dolezal and Amelia DeFalco -- Index.

"This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body-from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach-this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the 'Gothic body' and 'body horror', 'Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature' dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler."--Cover page 4

The Good Body: Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 1836-1867 examines literary and cultural representations of so-called ""normal"" and ""abnormal"" bodies in the antebellum and Civil War-era United States and the ways i

COVER -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME! -- HORRIBLE HORSEFLIES -- TICKS STUCK IN YOUR SKIN -- DON'T LET THE BEDBUGS BITE -- MIGHTY MITES -- GERMS AND BODY FUNGUS -- ITCHY FLEAS -- NASTY NITS AND HEAD LICE -- TAPEWORM ATTACK! -- MALARIA AND MOSQUITOES -- REALLY DISGUSTING FLIES -- BLOODSUCKING LEECHES -- FACE INVADERS -- GLOSSARY -- WEBSITES -- READ MORE -- INDEX -- BACK COVER

This article deals with the central position of the body in Polynesian and Kanak imaginary, ancestral myths, and language. In the collective imagination, the body is akin to a particle of the cosmos. The author probes into major primordial images in order to understand the peculiar role of the body in the Oceanic "anthropological structures of the imaginary" (Gilbert Durand's term) and asks whether the vision proposed by archaic myths finds its way into modern autochthonous Polynesian and Kanak indigenous literature, especially in the writings of Déwé Gorodé, Chantal Spitz, Flora Devatine, and Moetai Brotherson. Indeed, in keeping with the theories of Michel Foucault, the Oceanic body as it appears in modern poetic or novelistic narrations bears witness in its maimed flesh to a collective history and bears the scars of colonialism. Through its transhistorical dimension as well, this brand of francophone literature constitutes an original way to introduce some sort of counter-discourse into narrative strategies shaped by Western colonial history. In reclaiming the body, these writers are also reviving an ancestral voice.

List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of contributorsPrefaceChapter 1: Introduction -- Luci Attala and Louise SteelChapter 2: Bodies that co-create: The residues and intimacies of vital materials -- Eloise GovierChapter 3: I am apple -- Luci AttalaChapter 4: Cooled, cured and sedimented: Reforming and edifying the hydrocentric infants of northwestern Amazonia -- Elizabeth RahmenChapter 5: Embodied encounters with the ancestors- Louise SteelChapter 6: 'They roll around in the mud!': Becoming a community of substance -- Kate Nialla Fayers-Kerr. Chapter 7: The resuscitation of the twice-hanged man: Miracles and the body in medieval Swansea -- Harriett WebsterChapter 8: Dead and dusted: Exploring the mutable boundaries of the body -- Ros CoardChapter 9: A cup for any occasion: The materiality of drinking experiences at Kerma -- Carl WalshChapter 10: All fingers, no thumbs: the materiality of a medieval relic -- Janet Burton. GlossaryIndex

Reviews on whole body human cold adaptation generally do not distinguish between population studies and dedicated acclimation studies, leading to confusing results. Population studies show that indigenous black Africans have reduced shivering thermogenesis in the cold and poor cold induced vasodilation in fingers and toes compared to Caucasians and Inuit. About 40,000 y after humans left Africa, natives in cold terrestrial areas seems to have developed not only behavioral adaptations, but also physiological adaptations to cold. Dedicated studies show that repeated whole body exposure of individual volunteers, mainly Caucasians, to severe cold results in reduced cold sensation but no major physiological changes. Repeated cold water immersion seems to slightly reduce metabolic heat production, while repeated exposure to milder cold conditions shows some increase in metabolic heat production, in particular non-shivering thermogenesis. In conclusion, human cold adaptation in the form of increased metabolism and insulation seems to have occurred during recent evolution in populations, but cannot be developed during a lifetime in cold conditions as encountered in temperate and arctic regions. Therefore, we mainly depend on our behavioral skills to live in and survive the cold.