More-than-human fluid speculations

Fluid therapy might be more difficult than you think.

Robert G. Hahn, MD, PhD Young anesthesiologists have long been taught that the replacement of losses is the key target in the management of IV fluid therapy. During surgery, a fluid deficit is undoubtedly created by preoperative fasting, surgical blood loss, evaporation, and urinary excretion. The vasodilatation induced by many forms of anesthesia allows the vascular space to contain more plasm...

More Human Than Human: Does The Uncanny Curve Really Matter?

Anthropomorphism is a common phenomenon known already in ancient times. It is not a thing of the past, but still has a profound impact on major aspects of our lives and on research in AI and HRI. Its importance in the field of HRI is emphasized by the hotly-discussed uncanny valley hypothesis. However, in spite of its popularity, the uncanny valley hypothesis lacks empirical evidence. In this p...

Speculations on physicochemical fluid properties in physiological regulation.

Public health ethics and more-than-human solidarity.

This article contributes to the literature on One Health and public health ethics by expanding the principle of solidarity. We conceptualise solidarity to encompass not only practices intended to assist other people, but also practices intended to assist non-human others, including animals, plants, or places. To illustrate how manifestations of humanist and more-than-human solidarity may select...

HIV now: why human rights matter more than ever

Received 19 November 2013; Accepted 19 November 2013; Published 10 December 2013 Copyright: – 2013 Beyrer C; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium...