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Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...psychologically it is real and significant. “You can ask anybody you like: anybody who has an implant, whether it’s an artificial hip or cochlea or whatever it happens to be, regards that technology as part of themselves. It’s part of them, it’s in their body, whereas if it’s outside it’s not,” he says. “When you’ve got an implant and the building, or...
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...psychological moment for not bothering. Of course, he is a fetish; no Englishman can deny that the kingship is an idolatry; but he is a fetish with an uncommon share of the common man's divinity. The system which provides him for the people provides them the best administration in the world, always naturally in the hands of their superiors, social and political; but we...
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...psychological state. Heller uses first-person narration, which means we are dealing with two characters – the character being described, and the character doing the observing and describing. This adds an intrigue about the relationship between the two characters. Neither method is better than the other – they are just different approaches. Check whether you are using...
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...psychological, emotional, social and environmental components of our lives. In other words, it takes into account our person and everything about our life as a whole...Mental health awareness: 1.2 Stigma and discrimination - People who suffer from mental health problems often find that the causes of their distress do not lie within them but can be found in the situations...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...psychological short-sightedness’. It biases an individual’s attention towards their immediate needs and desires and against considering more remote events or the consequences of their actions...Week 5: The short-term effects of alcohol: 2 What is a hangover? - Ethanol can have both acute (short duration) and chronic (persisting for a long time or constantly recurring)...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...Psychological hypotheses about the causation of anorexia nervosa fall into three broad categories: Emotional. Theorists have proposed that some adolescent girls past puberty are trying to regain their childhood body form; anorexic women fail to start to menstruate or cease menstruation with onset of the disorder. Depression and anxiety are common amongst people with...
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...psychology and so on. Strong naturalists need not deny the legitimacy or usefulness of these other types of explanation, though they will claim that there are reductive explanations of why they hold.) Here is an activity to reinforce the points just made. Activity 8 Which of the following claims would strong naturalists endorse? Everything that exists is natural....
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...psychological losses which are assumed to arise from disability. (Oliver, 1990) In the medical model the barriers exist because of people’s impairments. In contrast, the social model describes disability as … … all the things that impose restrictions on disabled people; ranging from individual prejudice to institutional discrimination, from inaccessible public...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs