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    Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge.Cressida J. Heyes - 2020 - Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
    “Experience” is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. At the same time, “the personal is political,” and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource. In _Anaesthetics of Existence_ Cressida J. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. If for Foucault an “aesthetics of existence” was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's “anaesthetics (...)
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    The Anaesthetic Crisis of Work and Leisure: On Byung-Chul Han’s The Palliative Society.Ethan Stoneman - 2024 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2024 (206):171-177.
    ExcerptDrawing on the quasi-legal human experimentation programs designed and implemented by the CIA between the 1950s and 1970s, the television series Severance envisions the possible corporate uses of brainwashing and mind control. The narrative centers on employees of a technology company, Lumon Industries, who agree to undergo a medical procedure (“severance”) that separates non-work memories from work memories by implanting a microchip into the brain. Unfolding like a science fiction psychological thriller, the narration falls somewhere between omniscient and restricted. Viewers (...)
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    Anaesthetics of Existence.Cressida J. Heyes - 2014 - In Kristin Zeiler & Lisa Folkmarson Käll (eds.), Feminist Phenomenology and Medicine. State University of New York Press. pp. 263-284.
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    Heyes’s Introduction to Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience on the Edge.Cressida J. Heyes - 2023 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2).
    In this short introduction to my monograph Anaesthetics of Existence, I explain the origin of the book in a mishearing of Foucault’s phrase “an aesthetics of existence” and outline the book’s method (a melding of genealogy and phenomenology) and its subject: the politics of experience, and especially how to think about undergoings that either are excluded from experience or happen at its edges. The book contains a chapter on Foucault and this new method; one on sexual violence against unconscious (...)
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    Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge by Cressida J. Heyes, and: Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social by Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, and: When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence by Megan Burke.Drishadwati Bargi - 2021 - Philosophia 11 (1-2):258-266.
  6. The Amoralist and the Anaesthetic.Alex King - 2018 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 99 (4):632-663.
    This article puts pressure on moral motivational internalism and rejects normative motivational internalism by arguing that we should be aesthetic motivational externalists. Parallels between aesthetic and moral normativity give us new reason to doubt moral internalism. I address possible disanalogies, arguing that either they fail, or they succeed, but aren’t strong enough to underwrite a motivational difference between the domains. Furthermore, aesthetic externalism entails normative externalism, providing further presumptive evidence against moral internalism. I also make the case that, regardless of (...)
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  7. AB: The action of anaesthetics on the nervous system with special reference to the brain stern reticular system.M. Brazier - 1954 - In J. F. Delafresnaye (ed.), Brain Mechanisms and Consciousness. Oxford,: Blackwell. pp. 163.
     
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    Alteration of Consciousness by Anaesthetics: A Multiscale Modulation from the Molecular to the Systems Level.Marco Cavaglià, Eric A. Zizzi, Stephen Dombrowski, Marco A. Deriu & Jack A. Tuszynski - 2022 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 29 (5-6):21-49.
  9. Kant's Anaesthetic.Hugo Meynell - 1973 - Philosophical Forum 4 (3):340.
     
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    Anaesthetics of existence: Essays on experience at the edge. [REVIEW]Corinne Lajoie - 2020 - Contemporary Political Theory 20 (4):168-171.
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    Only a whisper away. A philosophical view of the awake patient's situation during regional anaesthetics and surgery.Ann-Christin Karlsson, Margaretha Ekebergh, Annika Larsson Mauléon & Sofia Almerud Österberg - 2012 - Nursing Philosophy 13 (4):257-265.
    In this study the awake patient's intraoperative situation and experiences during regional anaesthetics and surgery are reflected upon by using the work of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau‐Ponty. Merleau‐Ponty's phenomenological idea of the body as being at the centre of the world highlights the patient's embodied position and bestows significance onto the body as a whole, as a lived body. A case, based on the findings from a previous interview study, is presented as a contextual starting point where a (...)
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  12. Aesthetics and anaesthetics.Karen Dale & Gibson Burrell - 2003 - In Adrian Carr & Philip Hancock (eds.), Art and aesthetics at work. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 23--45.
     
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    A survey of anaesthetic preference among hospital staff.Christie Nwidum Mato, Sotonye Fyneface-Ogan & Bassey Edem - 2007 - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 13 (5):826-828.
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    Camp vs. Dialogue of Aesthetics and Anaesthetics. A Preliminary Attempt at Describing the Phenomenon.Anna Niderhaus - 2010 - Dialogue and Universalism 20 (3-4):143-153.
    The changes in the subject matter of philosophical aesthetics are accompanied today by changes in evaluation, degradation of the traditional notion of beauty and also rejection of the old rigid division between beauty and ugliness, causing the dissolution of the category divides—in the process anti-value often becomes a value understood as a formal criteria. In the artistic critique the rejection of absolutism in favor of pluralism and diversity is accompanied by the functioning of the old categories in their new meanings. (...)
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    Book Review: Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, by Cressida J. Heyes. [REVIEW]Lauren Guilmette - 2022 - Political Theory 50 (5):820-825.
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    The Development of Anaesthetic Apparatus. A History Based on the Charles King Collection of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by K. Bryn Thomas. [REVIEW]Stanley Joel Reiser - 1979 - Isis 70 (1):170-170.
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    Have we been paying attention? Educational anaesthetics in a time of crises.Gert Biesta - 2022 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (3):221-223.
    It is remarkable to see how much has already been written about what is alternatively called the ‘Corona Crisis’ or the ‘Covid-19 Crisis’ and also about its impact on education. In addition to an i...
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  18. Anestetyka architektury (N. Leach, \\\"The anaesthetics of architecture\\\").Małgorzata Liszewska - 2002 - Humanistyka I Przyrodoznawstwo 8.
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    Staff attitudes toward the promotion of family centred care in the Post Anaesthetic Care Unit.D. McCann, J. Young, J. Wilkinson, K. Cartwright & K. Ronlund - 2004 - The Acorn 17 (1):26-27.
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    Cressida J. Heyes, Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge; Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai, Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social; Megan Burke, When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence. [REVIEW]Drishadwati Bargi - 2021 - philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 11 (1-2):258-266.
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    Cressida J. Heyes. Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2020. 192 pp. [REVIEW]Jayne Lewis - 2021 - Critical Inquiry 48 (1):186-188.
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  22. The auditory evoked response as a monitor of anaesthetic depth.D. E. F. Newton, C. Thornton & C. Jordan - 1993 - In P. S. Sebel, B. Bonke & E. Winograd (eds.), Memory and Awareness in Anesthesia. Prentice-Hall.
     
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    Must a materialist pretend he's anaesthetized?Don Locke - 1971 - Philosophical Quarterly 21 (July):217-31.
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    Ich fühle, dass ich nichts fühle: Eine Gefühlspolitik für den Weltzustand Technik.Christopher J. Müller - 2024 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 72 (4):564-578.
    This article tracks the wider politics of emotion that run through the work of Günther Anders. It conceptualises the emergence of “anaesthetic violence”, a feel-good, or even unsensed form of power that configures around user-friendly devices. Anders’ mapping of the sense of inferiority, obsolescence and humiliating dependency our devices can invoke in us is gaining scholarly traction, but his work also exposes anaesthetic structures of feeling that merit further consideration. To open this perspective, the first part develops the quasi-Socratic formula (...)
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    Rappresentazioni della città: immagini di stock e anestetizzazione del paesaggio.Paolo Romele Furia - 2024 - Rivista di Estetica 85 (85):83-102.
    In this article, the authors explore the link between the city and its images. Their hypothesis is that images of the city do not merely have a cosmetic function but contribute to the experience of the city itself, as well as to its reality. The article focuses mainly on stock images of the city, those available on the websites of stock agencies such as Getty Images and Shutterstock. Their thesis is that these images have an anesthetizing effect on the imaginaries, (...)
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  26. Being Time.Alisa Bierria - 2023 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2).
    In her groundbreaking volume Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience at the Edge, Cressida Heyes provokes readers with the question, “How might experience not only motivate politics but also itself act as a medium of political change?” This essay builds on Heyes’s provocation by exploring self-making and self-advocacy within carceral political economies. Engaging Heyes’s discussion of “normative temporality,” I consider unstable subjectivities and a black feminist formation of “revelatory agency” to contend that the carceral consumption of human life-time expands, (...)
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  27. The Aesthetic Self. The Importance of Aesthetic Taste in Music and Art for Our Perceived Identity.Joerg Fingerhut, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Claudia Winklmayr & Jesse J. Prinz - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 11:577703.
    To what extent do aesthetic taste and our interest in the arts constitute who we are? In this paper, we present a series of empirical findings that suggest anAesthetic Self Effectsupporting the claim that our aesthetic engagements are a central component of our identity. Counterfactual changes in aesthetic preferences, for example, moving from liking classical music to liking pop, are perceived as altering us as a person. The Aesthetic Self Effect is as strong as the impact of moral changes, such (...)
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  28. Using animal-derived constituents in anaesthesia and surgery: the case for disclosing to patients.Daniel Rodger & Bruce P. Blackshaw - 2019 - BMC Medical Ethics 20 (1):1-9.
    Animal-derived constituents are frequently used in anaesthesia and surgery, and patients are seldom informed of this. This is problematic for a growing minority of patients who may have religious or secular concerns about their use in their care. It is not currently common practice to inform patients about the use of animal-derived constituents, yet what little empirical data does exist indicates that many patients want the opportunity to give their informed consent. First, we review the nature and scale of the (...)
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    How should institutions help clinicians to practise greener anaesthesia: first-order and second-order responsibilities to practice sustainably.Joshua Parker, Nathan Hodson, Paul Young & Clifford Shelton - forthcoming - Journal of Medical Ethics.
    There is a need for all industries, including healthcare, to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In anaesthetic practice, this not only requires a reduction in resource use and waste, but also a shift away from inhaled anaesthetic gases and towards alternatives with a lower carbon footprint. As inhalational anaesthesia produces greenhouse gas emissions at the point of use, achieving sustainable anaesthetic practice involves individual practitioner behaviour change. However, changing the practice of healthcare professionals raises potential ethical issues. The purpose of (...)
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    “Apocalypse Blindness,” Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future-Oriented Affect.Christopher John Müller - 2023 - Angelaki 28 (4):90-102.
    In the Anglo-American cultural sphere, the growing awareness of global warming and ecocide has coincided with the proliferation of a much discussed, post-apocalyptic imaginary that transports us to uninhabitable planetary futures. These “fictions,” as E. Ann Kaplan notes in a discussion of their mobilising potential, act as “memories for the future” which make us “identify with future selves struggling to survive.” This article turns to Günther Anders’s notion of “apocalypse-blindness” (1956) and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road to set out an alternative (...)
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    Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Perioperative Nursing Practice Through Critical Incidents.Iréne von Post - 1996 - Nursing Ethics 3 (3):236-249.
    This article describes the nature of ethical dilemmas in perioperative nursing practice. Using the Critical Incident Technique, common ethical dilemmas experienced by periop erative nurses are explored. The aim of the study was to elicit the ethical dilemmas that arise in perioperative nurses' practice. The study has a descriptive design and the data are critical incidents described by 48 anaesthetic nurses and 76 operating theatre nurses. An analysis of the critical incidents gave four domains of ethical dilemmas: those arising as (...)
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  32. Parfit on Pains, Pleasures, and the Time of Their Occurrence.Dan Moller - 2002 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 32 (1):67 - 82.
    Consider our attitude toward painful and pleasant experiences depending on when they occur. A striking but rarely discussed feature of our attitude which Derek Parfit has emphasized is that we strongly wish painful experiences to lie in our past and pleasant experiences to lie in our future. Our asymmetrical attitudes toward future and past pains and pleasures can be forcefully illustrated by means of a thought-experiment described by Parfit (1984, 165) which I will paraphrase as follows: You are in the (...)
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    The Thailand Cave Rescue: General Anaesthesia in Unique Circumstances Presents Ethical Challenges for the Rescue Team.Mark A. Irwin - 2022 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 19 (2):265-271.
    In 2018, the remarkable rescue of twelve young boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand captured worldwide attention. The rescue required the boys to be dived out of the cave system while fully anaesthetized which presented unique practical and ethical challenges for the rescue team. Major departures from normal anaesthetic practice were required. Taking anaesthetized children underwater was unprecedented, complex, and dangerous. To do this underground in a flooded cave meant the risks were extreme. Using (...)
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    Circumcision: What should be done?Hanoch Ben-Yami - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (7):459-462.
    I explain why I think that considerations regarding the opposing rights involved in the practice of circumcision—rights of the individual to bodily integrity and rights of the community to practice its religion—would not help us decide on the desirable policy towards this controversial practice. I then suggest a few measures that are not in conflict with either religious or community rights but that can both reduce the harm that circumcision as currently practiced involves and bring about a change in attitude (...)
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    Phenomenology, Agency, and Rape.Talia Mae Bettcher - 2023 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2).
    This essay engages with Cressida Heyes’s Anaesthetics of Existence (2020) on two points. First, it raises worries about Heyes’s apparent association of anaesthetic time with feminist resistance. Second, it reconsiders Heyes’s account of the specific harm involved in raping unconscious individuals, as well as her account of the sort of agency nullified by rape more generally, by appealing to the notion of interpersonal spatiality.
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  36. Sensations and brain processes.Hans Flohr - 1995 - Behavioral Brain Research 71:157-61.
    A hypothesis on the physiological conditions of consciousness is presented. It is assumed that the occurrence of states of consciousness causally depends on the formation of complex representational structures. Cortical neural networks that exhibit a high representational activity develop higher-order, self-referential representations as a result of self-organizing processes. The occurrence of such states is identical with the appearance of states of consciousness. The underlying physiological processes can be identified. It is assumed that neural assemblies instantiate mental representations; hence consciousness depends (...)
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    Life at the Edge.Megan Burke - 2023 - Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2).
    This paper considers the temporal experience constituted by prohibitions against sleep that target individuals who are unhoused and sleep outside. More specifically, drawing on Cressida Heyes’s account of sleep and anaesthetic time in Anaesthetics of Existence, this paper develops a preliminary account of punctuated time as a form of time poverty that is acute for those who must sleep outside. It is argued that such prohibitions against sleep work to anchor an individual in a totalizing presence, thereby instituting a (...)
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    Examining the adequacy of preoperative informed consent in a developing country: Challenges in the era of surgical specialisation.Osita Ede, Oke R. Obadaseraye, Ifeanyi Anichi, Chisom Mbaeze, Chukwuka O. Udemezue, Chinonso Basil-Nwachuku, Kenechi A. Madu, Emmanuel C. Iyidobi, Udo E. Anyaehie, Cajetan U. Nwadinigwe, Chidinma Ngwangwa & Uto Essien Adetula - 2023 - Developing World Bioethics 24 (4):296-301.
    Preoperative informed consent is a legal and ethical requirement that ensures patients understand a procedure, its associated risks and benefits, alternative treatment options, and potential complications to make an informed decision about their care. This cross‐sectional study evaluated the informed consent process for major orthopaedic surgeries at a tertiary hospital in Nigeria. A self‐administered questionnaire was used to collect data from 120 adult participants. Results showed that many patients do not read the consent form before signing it, and surgeons do (...)
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    How could brain imaging not tell us about consciousness?Bernard J. Baars - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (3):24-29.
    Revonsuo argues that current brain imaging methods do not allow us to ‘discover’ consciousness. While all observational methods in science have limitations, consciousness is such a massive and pervasive phenomenon that we cannot fail to observe its effects at every level of brain organization: molecular, cellular, electrical, anatomical, metabolic, and even the ‘higher levels of electrophysiological organization that are crucial for the empirical discovery and theoretical explanation of consciousness’ . Indeed, the first major discovery in that respect was Hans Berger's (...)
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    Pluriverse : An Essay in the Philosophy of Pluralism.Benjamin Paul Blood - 1920 - New York: Routledge.
    _Pluriverse_, the final work of the American poet and philosopher Benjamin Paul Blood, was published posthumously in 1920. After an experience of the anaesthetic nitrous oxide during a dental operation, Blood came to the conclusion that his mind had been opened, that he had undergone a mystical experience, and that he had come to a realisation of the true nature of reality. This title is the fullest exposition of Blood’s esoteric Christian philosophy-cum-theology, which, though deemed wildly eccentric by commentators both (...)
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    Pain in Pig Production: Text Mining Analysis of the Scientific Literature.Barbara Contiero, Giulio Cozzi, Lee Karpf & Flaviana Gottardo - 2019 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 32 (3):401-412.
    Public’s concern about poor animal welfare provided by intensive farming systems has increased over the last decades. This study reviewed the interest of the scientific research on the pain issue in pig production to assess if the societal instances may be a driving force for the research activity. A literature search protocol was set up to identify the peer-reviewed papers published between 1970 and 2017 that covered the topic of ‘pain in pigs’ using Scopus®, database of Elsevier©. One hundred and (...)
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    Exploring space consciousness other dissociative experiences: a Japanese perspective.Ornella Corazza - 2010 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 17 (7-8):7-8.
    The field of consciousness studies has long benefitted from the investigation of non- ordinary states of consciousness, both spontaneous and facilitated by mind-altering agents. In the present study, I look at the implications of spontaneous near-death experiences and experiences facilitated by the dissociative anaesthetic ketamine. These experiences reputedly have similar phenomenologies, such as a feeling of dying, motion through darkness, entering another realm, visions of light, and a sense of separation from the physical body. To assess whether ketamine and near-death (...)
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    Health professionals and trust: the cure for healthcare law and policy.Mark Henaghan - 2012 - New York: Routledge-Cavendish.
    Over the past twenty years there has been a shift in medical law and practise to increasingly distrust the judgement of health professionals. An increasing number of codes of conduct, disciplinary bodies, ethics committees and bureaucratic policies now prescribe how health professional and health researchers should act and relate to their patients. The result of this, Mark Henaghan argues, has been to undermine trust and professional judgement in health professionals, while simultaneously failing to trust the patient to make decisions about (...)
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    Knowledge and practice of confidential data handling in the Welsh Deanery: a brief report.L. E. Jackson & M. W. Lim - 2011 - Journal of Medical Ethics 37 (1):58-60.
    Recent large-scale personal data loss incidents highlighted the need for public bodies to more securely handle confidential data. We surveyed trainees from all specialties in the Welsh Deanery for their knowledge and practice. All registered trainees were invited to participate in an online anonymised survey. There were 880 completed and non-duplicated responses (52.9% response rate). Responses were analysed using Microsoft Access. Over 40% (388/880 (44.1%)) did not use formal guidelines on storage or disposal of confidential data. The majority appeared to (...)
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  45. (1 other version)A view of one's own (conscious machines).John R. Lucas - 1994 - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series A 349:147-52.
    Two questions are distinguished: how to program a machine so that it behaves in a manner that would lead us to ascribe consciousness to it; and what is involved in saying that something is conscious. The distinction can be seen in cases where anaesthetics have failed to work on patients temporarily paralysed.
     
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    Neurochemistry of Consciousness: Neurotransmitters in Mind. Advances in Consciousness Research.Elaine Perry, Heather Ashton & Allan Young (eds.) - 2002 - John Benjamins.
    This pioneering book explores in depth the role of neurotransmitters in conscious awareness. The central aim is to identify common neural denominators of conscious awareness, informed by the neurochemistry of natural, drug induced and pathological states of consciousness. Chemicals such as acetylcholine and dopamine, which bridge the synaptic gap between neurones, are the 'neurotransmitters in mind' that form the substance of the volume, which is essential reading for all who believe that unravelling mechanisms of consciousness must include these vital systems (...)
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  47. Henry Spira's Search for Common Ground on Animal Testing.Peter Singer - 1999 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 8 (1):9-22.
    Since the 1940s the Draize test had been the standard test applied to any substance that might conceivably get into a human eye. The Draize test involved immobilizing fully conscious rabbits in stocks so that they could not scratch their eyes, and then applying the substance to one eyeball of each rabbit. The eyeballs were examined at intervals of, for example, 24, 48, and 72 hours, and graded for damage such as blindness or blistering. In 1980 Henry Spira launched a (...)
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    When Scottish medicine hospitalized Indian magic: Dr James Esdaile's mesmeric surgery in mid-nineteenth-century Bengal.Kapil Raj - forthcoming - British Journal for the History of Science:1-23.
    In order to explore the ways knowledge travels across spatial and cultural boundaries, this article focuses on the intriguing case of the Edinburgh-trained Scottish surgeon James Esdaile (1808–59), who, after practising conventional surgery for almost fifteen years in British colonial India, quite unexpectedly turned to mesmeric anaesthesia in the last five years of his service. By following his career and his mesmeric turn, the article describes Esdaile's subsequent public experiments in mesmeric anaesthesia in collaboration with indigenous practices and practitioners of (...)
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  49. Stochastic description of complex and simple spike firing in cerebellar Purkinje cells.Soon-Lim Shin - unknown
    Cerebellar Purkinje cells generate two distinct types of spikes, complex and simple spikes, both of which have conventionally been considered to be highly irregular, suggestive of certain types of stochastic processes as underlying mechanisms. Interestingly, however, the interspike interval structures of complex spikes have not been carefully studied so far. We showed in a previous study that simple spike trains are actually composed of regular patterns and single interspike intervals, a mixture that could not be explained by a simple rate-modulated (...)
     
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  50. The biochemical basis of coma.J. R. Smythies - 1999 - Psycoloquy 10 (26).
    Current research on the neural basis of consciousness is based mainly on neuroimaging, physiology and psychophysics. This target article reviews what is known about biochemical factors that may contribute to the development of consciousness, based on loss of consciousness (i.e., coma). There are two theories of the biochemical mode of action of general anaesthetics. One is that anaesthesia is a direct (i.e., not receptor-mediated) effect of the anaesthetic on cellular neurophysiological function; the other is that some alteration of receptor (...)
     
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