Biotensegrity

The Structural Basis of Life

Graham Scarr

• Éditeur: Handspring Publishing Limited
• Année: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781909141858
• Édition: 2
• Sujet: Sciences biologiques
• Sous-sujet: Biophysique

The emerging science of biotensegrity provides a fresh context for rethinking our understanding of human movement, but its complexities can be formidable. Biotensegrity: The Structural Basis of Life, Second edition - now with full color illustrations throughout - explores and explains the concept of biotensegrity and provides an understanding and appreciation of anatomy and physiology in the light of the latest research findings.

The reader learns that biotensegrity is an evolving science which gives researchers, teachers, and practitioners across a wide range of specialisms, including bodyworkers and movement teachers, a deeper understanding of the structure and function of the human body. They are then able to develop clinical practice and skills in light of this understanding, leading to more effective therapeutic approaches, with the aim of improved client outcomes.

The second edition provides expanded coverage of the developmental and therapeutic aspects of biotensegrity. Coverage now includes:

• • A more thorough look at life's internal processes
  • Closed kinematic chains as the new biomechanics
  • Embryological development as an evolutionary process
  • The human body as a constantly evolving system based on a set of unchanging principles
  • Emergence, heterarchies, soft-matter and small-world networks
  • A deeper look at what constitutes the therapeutic process

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword to first edition
• Foreword by Stephen M. Levin
• Foreword by John Sharkey
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Glossary
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 • Tensegrity
• Chapter 2 • Simple geometry in complex organisms
• Chapter 3 • The balance of unseen forces
• Chapter 4 • The problem with mechanics
• Chapter 5 • The autonomous cell
• Chapter 6 • The twist in the tale
• Chapter 7 • The ease of motion
• Chapter 8 • The ‘hard’ and the ‘soft’
• Chapter 9 • A closer look
• Chapter 10 • ‘Complex’ patterns in biology
• Chapter 11 • Biotensegrity: a rational approach to biomechanics
• Chapter 12 • Biotensegrity: the structural basis of life
• Appendix 1 • Tensegrity models
• Appendix 2 • Muscle volume and crossed helical fiber angle
• Appendix 3 • The questionable hydrostat
• Appendix 4 • The avian lung
• Appendix 5 • Closed-chain kinematics and embryological development
• Figure sources and permissions
• References
• Index