Comedy is often described as a defence mechanism, the way in which practitioners escape painful realities.
This can include anything from therapeutic touch -- in which practitioners, without touching their patients, try to alter their energy fields -- to simply praying for people who are ill.
'Co-pro' also challenges the traditional customer-contractor convention in which practitioners commission research which is then conducted, packaged and delivered by academics.
The production showcased the street-dance subgenre known as flexing, in which practitioners wowed audiences with shoulder contortions, gliding steps, sudden halts, and visual tricks.
Homeopathy is a "treatment" based on the use of highly diluted substances, which practitioners claim can cause the body to heal itself.
Hesychasm, in Eastern Christianity, type of monastic life in which practitioners seek divine quietness (Greek hēsychia) through the contemplation of God in uninterrupted prayer.
Voodoo prayer circles in which practitioners meet to commiserate have also proliferated, with a notable intensity in the months since the earthquake.
Now a two-year foundation-supported study has reignited the debate over which practitioners are qualified to provide dental care, especially to underserved populations in high-poverty areas.
Again, consultation with defence practitioners has been minimal – as with virtual courts, there have been a few regional events at which practitioners have been told what will happen, but advance notice is not the same as consultation.
Steel What good nerves are made of (from which it follows that the ideal of non-flusterability and the state to which practitioners of meditation should aspire is the steel cucumber).
Their research is a timely reminder that, unlike the laws of physics, to which practitioners of the dismal science yearn to be compared, economic policy is not one-size-fits-all.
