A Multidisciplinary Approach to Embodiment: Understanding Human Being

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword by Series Editor
Preface by Book Editor
Introduction: Face It or Replace It?: Why Computational Metaphors Fall Short and Why We Need a New Approach
Part I: Being
	1 The Matter of Life and Death: How Humans Embody the Universe
	2 At Home in Deep Time
	3 The Secrets of Life: The Vital Roles of RNA Networks and Viruses
	4 A Brief History of Death
Part II: Engaging
	5 Attentive Bodies: Epigenetic Processes and Concepts of Human Being
	6 Uncovering the Living Body: Bodies and Agents in the Cognitive Sciences
	7 Approaching Learning Hands First: How Gesture Influences Thought
	8 Digitization, Reading, and the Body: Handling Texts on Paper and Screens
Part III: Coordinating
	9 Embodied Time: A Shared, Ancient Heritage
	10 Rhythm and the Body
	11 The Embodiment of Emotion
	12 Body Focus in Expert Action
Part IV: (Re)Locating
	13 How Bodies Become Viscous
	14 Embodiment, Plasticity, Biosociality, and Epigenetics: The Politics of a Vulnerable Body for Toxic Times
	15 Violating the Inviolable: Evolved Reproductive Prerogatives of Individual Women
	16 Embodiment and the Lived Experience of Diaspora
Part V: Healing
	17 Vital Energy, Health, and Medicine
	18 The Power of Touch: Oxytocin, the “Love Hormone,” Is Released by Massage Therapy
	19 Traumatic Embodiment: Traumatic Exposure and Healing
	20 Virtual Embodiment and Embodied Cognition: Effect of Virtual Reality Perspective Taking Tasks on Empathy and Prejudice
Epilogue: What Embodiment Is
Index