Projects
Boundary Stones in the Body: Kidney, Bladder and Gall Stones as Markers of Early Modern Concepts of the Human Body and Its Relations with the Outside World, 1525-1675 Ghent University
How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients had many options to make illness meaningful. Over the past decades historians have shown that bodily experience involved medical, natural-historical, scientific, and religious approaches. We can now go further: how did medical, philosophical and ...
“My body defines who I am”: An identity perspective on the body (ID-BODY) KU Leuven
Although the link between one’s body experiences and identity development has been highlighted repeatedly, little integrative work has been conducted. Further, existing research lacks theoretical and methodological sophistication. To remedy these shortcomings, the ID-BODY project upholds a differentiated and nuanced perspective on identity and the body using longitudinal and mixed-methods designs. The main research question of ID-BODY is: How ...
The Body schema profile in Mental Health Hasselt University
Your Body Text AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Design of implantable antennas and characterisation of in-to-out-body wireless links in a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) Ghent University
The aim of the project consists of designing an antennas which can be implanted into the human body. Moreover, the in-body and in-to-out-body wireless communication link between the implanted antennas and communication nodes outside the body will be characterized. The absorption of electromagnetic radiation by the body due to the implanted antenna will be measured.
Corpo-gambiarra: dance, costume and politics of the body. AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Unravelling the role of entertainment fiction as a positive socialization agent for adolescents’ sexuality and body image KU Leuven
A Wireless Body Area Network for an Improved Control of Bionic Prosthetic Arms Ghent University
There are approximately 5 million amputees in the USA and the EU
combined and these numbers are expected to increase.
Consequently, there have been innovations in neuro-prosthetic limbs
that led to the development of smart prosthetics, including bionic
prosthetic arms. These devices require connections to several onbody
sensors and actuators in order to function properly. This
communication is wireless in ...