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The Origin of the Species (Native Agents)
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The Origin of the Species collects stories, manifestos, rants and songs by Homer Erotic lead singer/poet/politico Barbara Barg. Raised as the only Jew in her Arkansas town in the mid-1960s, Barg's subject matter ranges from Nietzsche to Lithuanian pogroms to shoplifting and cocktail-waitressing to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in her town.
What do we belong to
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Besides his more famous works of philosophy -- DISCOURSE ON METHOD, MEDITATIONS ON FIRST PHILOSOPHY, and PRINCIPLES OF PHILOSOPHY -- Rene Descartes (1596-1650) devoted a great deal of time and thought to the study of physiology and anatomy. The fruits of this research can be found in TREATISE OF MAN.
Among its many intriguing features are his detailed descriptions of the nervous system and its interactions with the muscles to create movement in response to stimulus. Though we now know that many of these details are wrong, Descarte's understanding that much of the body functions as a mechanism was a stroke of genius.
This is a landmark work that students of history, medicine, biology, and the history of science will find rewarding.
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Descartes' "Treatise of Man".......2003-10-05
René Descartes' 1629 "Treatise of Man" is a piece of natural philosophy worth noting and reading for a few reasons. Know that I have a long standing antipathy for Descartes for my own personal reasons. In the "Treatise," Descartes attempts to explain the workings of the human body by drawing an explicit comparison between a hypothetical "machine" which operates, ostensibly, "like we do". Descartes spends the best part of the "Treatise" outlining the ways that this machine's senses are informed by the singly material operations of the cardiovascular and nervous systems.
Working on what basically amounts to as a heat-model, Descartes discusses how blood in the heart, and what he calls animal spirits in the brain cause the human machine to function just "as we do" - without the supposed necessity of the soul. He does not dispense with the idea of the soul, however - after all that would get him excommunicated faster than he could have said "cogito ergo sum" - he merely dances around the issue by saying that the major difference between the human machine and "us" is that we have a soul located in its seat, the brain. His purpose, again, is to show how a soul is not necessary to the bodily functions of man - that our bodies all operate the same, and according to rational physical principles.
Descartes can be seen in the "Treatise" as a major contributor to late 17th and early 18th century notions of human passions. To this he contributes the omnipresent image of the filaments with which he says our nervous systems are comprised. Certainly we have all heard phrases like, "tugging on your heartstrings" - this popularly arises out of philosophies like Descartes, who proposes that our physical reactions - to pain, pleasure, etc. - are all the results of these filaments, or cords, within our bodies, which external stimuli act upon, sending messages to our brains. This affects not only reaction, but perception, and even the manifestations of our emotional responses to the external world.
Sight and Touch are Descartes' major focuses in the realm of human sensory perception. Noteworthy in the "Treatise" are Descartes' many example illustrations, scattered generously throughout the text and abundantly provided in this Prometheus Press edition of the "Treatise". From the mundane illustration showing how a person becomes aware of the pain of a fire, to the more unusual visual perception illustrations of a person in profile with one eyeball on top of the other, to the most interesting illustrations of the central "Gland H" in the brain, which becomes erect and points around in response to stimuli - Descartes' illustrations are, for me, the most fascinating part of the "Treatise."
One problem I have with Descartes' "Treatise," is the absolutely arbitrary way he delineates human perception. In Descartes' machine-logic, our perceptions follow and focus on whatever most immediately presents itself to the mind. In this schema - one could be talking to a friend, and completely forget about the friend if a butterfly crosses our line of vision - the ability to focus on one thing for a sustained period of time is something Descartes does not discuss. It leaves the reader, or at least this one, wondering if sustained focus is the province of the soul, which he does not discuss in this work, or if not - how he managed to write so much with the perpetual threat of distraction.
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A Survey of Medical Neuroscience
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The Epididymis: From Molecules to Clinical Practice: A Comprehensive Survey of Efferent Ducts, the Epididymis and the Vas Deferens
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The epididymis has become increasingly important to researchers engaged in fertility and its regulation. Until now, no single volume review of the field has been available.
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Human Physiology: Age, Stress, and the Environment
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Most physiology textbooks tend to focus on a "snapshot" taken at a particular time of life under standard conditions. This text takes a unique approach to physiology, by empahasizing the adaptations to changing demands, such as age and environment. The ideal complement to standard physiology textbooks, it highlights the importance of considering stressful circumstances and conditions as an aid to understanding normal mechanisms more fully. A completely revised successor to the authors' Variations in Human Physiology, this new book is of immense value to students studying physiology on science courses or preclinical courses in medicine or dentistry.
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A097923. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Advanced anatomy instruction is required in nurse anesthesia programs by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA). This study provides a descriptive analysis on how anatomy is taught in nurse anesthesia programs in the United States with special emphasis on regional anesthesia. A survey consisting of 18 questions regarding anatomy course curriculum and regional anesthesia training was mailed to the nurse anesthesia programs (n=87) accredited by the COA. Supporting evidence for content validity and reliability was obtained. A total of 78 programs (90%) responded to the survey. The majority of programs 49 (63%) teach a specific course in human anatomy with 14 (18%) of those programs teaching a combined anatomy and physiology course. The mean hours spent in lecture was 5 hours per week. More variability in the lab hours existed with a range of 0-20 hours, a mode of 0 hours, and a mean of 2 hours per week. Twenty-two (28%) of the programs use human specimens with 10 (13%) using prosected specimens, 2 (3%) using dissection only, and 10 (13%) using a combination of both. Of the programs using human specimens, 17 (22%) have instructors demonstrate regional anesthetic techniques in situ, and 3 (4%) of the programs afford the students the opportunity to practice regional anesthetic techniques on the specimens. Computer assisted instruction (CAI) is used by 14 (18%) of the programs with many more planning to incorporate this new technique in the near future.
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International Review of Cytology, Vol. 248: A Survey of Cell Biology
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International Review of Cytology presents current advances and comprehensive reviews in cell biology both plant and animal. Authored by some of the foremost scientists in the field, each volume provides up-to-date information and directions for future research. Articles in this volume address new insights into fatty acid modulation of pancreatic beta cell function; drosophila RNA binding proteins; plasticity of pelvic autonomic ganglia and urogenital innervation; vomeronasal vs. olifactory epithelium: cellular basis for human vomeronasal perception; and tight junctions.
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This book is about the process of doing research in human biology. Seasoned researchers share their experiences working on problems of interest to biological anthropologists, including environmental stresses, population genetics, parasitic vectors and vital records. They describe obstacles encountered and successful strategies employed in their own studies and in those of others that may be of use to beginning researchers in this area.
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