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On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy

Groenevelt,Irene
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Slatman,Jenny
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Osteopathy is a complementary treatment method that targets motor restrictions and enhances motility through touch. While recent studies have explored the functions, dimensions, and effects of touch in osteopathy, there is a lack of research on how touch renders bodies intelligible - or what bodies, for that matter. In this article, we use the verb to affect/to be affected to explore how bodies become known by and to Dutch osteopaths, and how the senses play a role in this. Our analysis shows how touch allows osteopaths to affect and be affected by their patients' bodies - as well as by their own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Osteopathie is een complementaire geneeswijze die gericht is de behandeling van bewegingsbeperkingen en de verbetering van mobiliteit door aanraking. Hoewel recente studies hebben gekeken naar de functies, aspecten en effecten van aanraking in de osteopathie, is er weinig onderzoek gedaan naar de wijze waarop aanraking lichamen waarneembaar maakt - of om wat voor lichamen het hierbij gaat. In dit artikel gebruiken wij het werkwoord to affect-to be affected om te onderzoeken hoe lichamen gekend worden door en voor osteopaten, alsook hoe de zintuigen hier een rol in spelen. Onze analyze laat zien hoe aanraking osteopaten in staat stelt om de lichamen van hun pati & euml;nten te beroeren en erdoor geraakt te worden.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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2024-10-08
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Enactment, osteopathy, the Netherlands, the body and embodiment, to affect/to be affected, touch
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Groenevelt, I & Slatman, J 2024, 'On the Affectivity of Touch: Enacting Bodies in Dutch Osteopathy', Medical Anthropology, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 641-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2024.2410251
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