Boccia is an ancient ball-throwing game that originated in Italy and became a Paralympic sport in 1984. The aim is to roll balls close to a central target ball called the jack-ball. The document discusses the author's experiences playing boccia on a team of 6 people aged 13 to 18 under coach Mikhail Kozlov. Their team took 2nd place in the Cup of Russia competition in Moscow, and the author himself is the boccia champion of Russia who won a silver medal in Brno, Czech Republic in 2012.
This document summarizes an article about dysmorphology, the medical study of abnormal human forms. Dysmorphology involves inspecting images of individuals with conditions and classifying them based on physical appearance into various syndromes. The document discusses how dysmorphology preserves aspects of earlier physiognomy but is increasingly using genetic technologies. It is an area where clinical medicine and genetic science intersect. The document also discusses how the clinical examination of patients remains a "spectacle" as clinicians make judgments and pronouncements about patients' appearances and conditions based on their expert gaze.
Boccia is an ancient ball-throwing game that originated in Italy and became a Paralympic sport in 1984. The aim is to roll balls close to a central target ball called the jack-ball. The document discusses the author's experiences playing boccia on a team of 6 people aged 13 to 18 under coach Mikhail Kozlov. Their team took 2nd place in the Cup of Russia competition in Moscow, and the author himself is the boccia champion of Russia who won a silver medal in Brno, Czech Republic in 2012.
This document summarizes an article about dysmorphology, the medical study of abnormal human forms. Dysmorphology involves inspecting images of individuals with conditions and classifying them based on physical appearance into various syndromes. The document discusses how dysmorphology preserves aspects of earlier physiognomy but is increasingly using genetic technologies. It is an area where clinical medicine and genetic science intersect. The document also discusses how the clinical examination of patients remains a "spectacle" as clinicians make judgments and pronouncements about patients' appearances and conditions based on their expert gaze.