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    • Wychowanie fizyczne, sport i olimpizm w perspektywie pedagogicznej 

      Kowalska, Jolanta E.; Kaźmierczak, Arkadiusz; Kowalska, Jolanta E. - Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Nauk o Wychowaniu, Centrum Kształcenia Pedagogów Sportu; Kaźmierczak, Arkadiusz - Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Nauk o Wychowaniu, Centrum Kształcenia Pedagogów Sportu (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-18)
      Monografia zawierającą 16 tekstów autorów z różnych ośrodków akademickich, które swoimi treściami wpisują się w obszar problemów społecznej teorii i praktyki wychowania fizycznego, sportu i olimpizmu. Traktują tym samym ...
    • The Body and Religion 

      Krajewska, Malwina (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      This chapter is devoted to the relations and dependencies occurring between the human body and various forms of religious life. The discussion considers their normative, theoretical and practical aspects. First, the ...
    • The Body and Time 

      Adamczyk, Monika Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      Body and time are frequently used notions. We understand them intuitively, like „“a wrinkle or a page of the calendar”, and we are convinced that there is nothing new that can be said in this regard. This chapter offers a ...
    • The Body, Illness and Partial Disability 

      Skrzypek, Michał; Kowal, Katarzyna (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The chapter offers the sociological perspective on chronic diseases and disability, and focuses attention on the effort related to identity forming. M. Merleau-Ponty initiates the reflection on this issue by describing the ...
    • The Body and Medicine 

      Wieczorkowska, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate how medical knowledge influences the perception of the body, its meaning and its transformations. The presented theories are discussed in chronological order: first, the humours ...
    • The Body, Food and Eating 

      Wójtewicz, Anna; Maj, Agnieszka (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The aim of this chapter is to demonstrate selected links between socio-cultural construction of the body and the food understood as practice resulting from the biological need, and simultaneously, entangled in cultural ...
    • The Body and Sexuality 

      Wojciechowska, Magdalena (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      In this chapter, I offer an insight into the issue of human sexuality within the context of the body and embodiment, drawing on classical literature in the area and more recent field studies. I aim to highlight diverse ...
    • The Body and Gender 

      Dzwonkowska-Godula, Krystyna; Garncarek, Emilia; Czernecka, Julita (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The authors of this chapter pursue an issue of the body and embodiment from the gender perspective. In this paper, they assume that the body is perceived and functions socially as a gendered body, containing a cultural ...
    • The Body and Media 

      Breczko, Sylwia (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      Sociology is interested in the media messages concerning the body, assuming that media are one of the basic institutions of socialization through which we learn social norms about the body. The media allows us to go beyond ...
    • The Body and Beauty 

      Bieńko, Mariola (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      This chapter is an attempt to reflect on the invasive beautifying body practices in contemporary consumer culture. The issues raised in this chapter relate to several problem areas. The first one concerns physical ...
    • The Body and Sport 

      Jakubowska, Honorata (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      This chapter introduces various points of view on the body and embodiment, which are present in the sociological analyses of sport. In the first part of the chapter, the accomplishments of classical sociologists whose ideas ...
    • The Body and Work 

      Byczkowska-Owczarek, Dominika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      This chapter tackles the issue of relations between the bodies of individuals and the social situation of work. Posts, employment conditions, workplaces and professional identities are gaining significance in contemporary ...
    • The Body and Sociology 

      Byczkowska-Owczarek, Dominika (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The chapter introduces the reader to the topic of sociology of the body in the Polish context, taking into account various theoretical and methodological perspectives. It presents the topics of the chapters contained in ...
    • The Body and Sociology – empirical research and theoretical concepts 

      Byczkowska-Owczarek, Dominika; University of Łódź, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Department of the Sociology of Culture (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-07-06)
      The book presents issues of the sociology of the body in relation to various spheres of social life in which processes, values, norms and other social phenomena influence the human body. The book presents the assumptions ...
    • Ochronna rola CORMs w łagodzeniu stresu oksydacyjnego i stanu zapalnego indukowanego doksorubicyną w modelu prawidłowych komórek skóry - MINIATURA 8 2024/08/X/NZ7/01320 (dataset) 

      Juszczak, Michał (2024-12-10)
      Doxorubicin is a potent anticancer drug that unfortunately damages healthy cells. Researchers from the University of Łódź investigated whether carbon monoxide could protect against these side effects. They used CORMs (carbon ...
    • Estimation of sex and assessment of age based on morphological variations of the atlas vertebra (C1) using Cone Beam Computed Tomography: A retrospective study 

      Devi, Thounaojam Sushma; Rao, Kumuda; Ajila, Vidya; Mullick, Bidisha (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-06-30)
      Background The atlas (C1) vertebra joins the cervical column to the cranial base and differs anatomically from other cervical vertebrae. Skeletal analysis may provide the only way to assess biological sex and age in poorly ...
    • Body height and mass of children and adolescents in Poland: age-specific centile distributions from the 2024–2025 nationwide survey 

      Pastuszak, Anna; Dobosz, Janusz; Sadowska, Dorota (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-18)
      IntroductionData on the growth and development of the young generation constitute a reliable indicator of the health and nutritional status of societies. They can be used as a tool for monitoring the social and economic ...
    • Sexual Dimorphism at Different Stages of Ontogenesis Based on the Kraków – Longitudinal Growth Study, Poland 

      Żarów, Ryszard; Kowal, Małgorzata; Woronkowicz, Agnieszka; Brudecki, Janusz (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-06-09)
      Introduction and Study Aim The aim of the study is to assess the magnitude of changes in sexual dimorphism with respect to selected morphological traits and the results of physical fitness tests between the ages of 8 and ...
    • Understanding global dementia burden: Ageing and dairy supply as key predictors of total, male and female dementia incidence 

      You, Wenpeng; Henneberg, Maciej; Feng, Shuhuan (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-05-15)
      IntroductionDementia incidence is rising worldwide, driven largely by population ageing and demographic transition. Although dietary factors have been proposed as modifiable contributors, the role of dairy consumption ...
    • Analysis of periodontal disease in the archaeological population of Dąbrówki (Poland) (16th–17th centuries) 

      Rekowska, Marcelina; Zalewska, Marta; Tomczyk, Jacek (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2026-04-22)
      IntroductionPeriodontitis is a disease affecting a significant proportion of both modern and historical populations, and its development is largely associated with poor oral hygiene. Study aim The aim of this study was to ...