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    Moderne – Macht – Morbid: Dammbau, Gesundheitshilfe und die Konstruktion von Macht im Kontext der Bilharziosebekämpfung im Ägypten der 1960er und frühen 1970er Jahre.Benjamin Brendel - 2017 - NTM Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin 25 (3):349-382.
    ZusammenfassungIn diesem Artikel werden die Modernisierungskampagnen in Ägypten während der 1960er und 1970er Jahre analysiert. Die Regulierung des Nils durch den Assuan-Hochdamm und die ihm folgenden Bewässerungsprojekte führten dazu, dass die Infestitionsrate mit Bilharziose in der Bevölkerung stieg. Infolgedessen entstand ein Diskurs zwischen Experten des Globalen Nordens und Angehörigen der ägyptischen Eliten über Modernisierung, Entwicklungshilfe, Dammbau und Gesundheitsversorgung. Der Kampf gegen Bilharziose war darin eine Chiffre, die verschiedene machtgeladene Konzepte und Argumente in sich vereinte. In dieser Arbeit wird diese Chiffre (...)
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  2. Unconscious cerebral initiative and the role of conscious will in voluntary action.Benjamin Libet - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (4):529-66.
    Voluntary acts are preceded by electrophysiological (RPs). With spontaneous acts involving no preplanning, the main negative RP shift begins at about200 ms. Control experiments, in which a skin stimulus was timed (S), helped evaluate each subject's error in reporting the clock times for awareness of any perceived event.
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  3. (1 other version)Do we have free will?Benjamin W. Libet - 1999 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (8-9):47-57.
    I have taken an experimental approach to this question. Freely voluntary acts are preceded by a specific electrical change in the brain that begins 550 ms before the act. Human subjects became aware of intention to act 350-400 ms after RP starts, but 200 ms. before the motor act. The volitional process is therefore initiated unconsciously. But the conscious function could still control the outcome; it can veto the act. Free will is therefore not excluded. These findings put constraints on (...)
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  4. Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness.Benjamin Libet - 2004 - Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
    Over a long career, Libet has conducted experiments that have shown, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness.
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  5. Brain stimulation in the study of neuronal functions for conscious sensory experiences.Benjamin W. Libet - 1982 - Human Neurobiology 1:235-42.
  6. The Experimental Evidence for Subjective Referral of a Sensory Experience Backwards in Time: Reply to P. S. Churchland.Benjamin Libet - 1981 - Philosophy of Science 48 (June):182-197.
    Evidence that led to the hypothesis of a backwards referral of conscious sensory experiences in time, and the experimental tests of its predictions, is summarized. Criticisms of the data and the conclusion by Churchland that this hypothesis is untenable are analysed and found to be based upon misconceptions and faulty evaluations of facts and theory. Subjective referral in time violates no neurophysiological principles or data and is compatible with the theory of "mental" and "physical" correspondence.
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    Non‐adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals.Benjamin Wilson, Michelle Spierings, Andrea Ravignani, Jutta L. Mueller, Toben H. Mintz, Frank Wijnen, Anne Kant, Kenny Smith & Arnaud Rey - 2020 - Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (3):843-858.
    Wilson et al. focus on one class of AGL tasks: the cognitively demanding task of detecting non‐adjacent dependencies (NADs) among items. They provide a typology of the different types of NADs in natural languages and in AGL tasks. A range of cues affect NAD learning, ranging from the variability and number of intervening elements to the presence of shared prosodic cues between the dependent items. These cues, important for humans to discover non‐adjacent dependencies, are also found to facilitate NAD learning (...)
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    Conflicts of Interest and Recommendations for Clinical Treatments That Benefit Researchers.Benjamin S. Wilfond, Devan M. Duenas & Liza-Marie Johnson - 2020 - American Journal of Bioethics 20 (10):90-91.
    Volume 20, Issue 10, October 2020, Page 90-91.
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  9. Conscious subjective experience vs. unconscious mental functions: A theory of the cerebral processes involved.Benjamin W. Libet - 1989 - In Rodney M. J. Cotterill, Models of Brain Function. Cambridge University Press.
  10. Neuronal vs. subjective timing for a conscious sensory experience.Benjamin W. Libet - 1978 - In P. A. Buser & A. Rougeul-Buser, Cerebral correlates of conscious experience.
  11. The neural time factor in conscious and unconscious events.Benjamin W. Libet - 1993 - In Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Consciousness. (Ciba Foundation Symposium 174). pp. 174--123.
  12. Subjective referral of the timing for a cognitive sensory experience.Benjamin W. Libet, Feinstein E. W. & Pearl B. - 1979 - Brain 102:193-224.
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    The Limitations of “Boilerplate” Language in Informed Consent: Single IRB Review of Multisite Genetic Research in Military Personnel.Benjamin S. Wilfond, Jennifer Zabrowski & Liza M. Johnson - 2019 - American Journal of Bioethics 19 (4):81-82.
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    Toward the critique of violence: a critical edition.Walter Benjamin - 2019 - Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Edited by Peter D. Fenves & Julia Ng.
    Marking the centenary of Walter Benjamin's immensely influential essay, "Toward the Critique of Violence," this critical edition presents readers with an altogether new, fully annotated translation of a work that is widely recognized as a classic of modern political theory. The volume includes twenty-one notes and fragments by Benjamin along with passages from all of the contemporaneous texts to which his essay refers. Readers thus encounter for the first time in English provocative arguments about law and violence advanced (...)
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    Origin of the German Trauerspiel.Walter Benjamin - 2018 - Harvard University Press.
    Origin of the German Trauerspiel was Walter Benjamin's first full, historically oriented analysis of modernity. Readers of English know it as "The Origin of German Tragic Drama," but in fact the subject is something else--the play of mourning. Howard Eiland's completely new English translation, the first since 1977, is closer to the German text and more consistent with Benjamin's philosophical idiom. Focusing on the extravagant seventeenth-century theatrical genre of the trauerspiel, precursor of the opera, Benjamin identifies allegory (...)
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  16. Perceiving Smellscapes.Benjamin D. Young - 2020 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 101 (2):203-223.
    We perceive smells as perduring complex entities within a distal array that might be conceived of as smellscapes. However, the philosophical orthodoxy of Odor Theories has been to deny that smells are perceived as having a distal location. Recent challenges have been mounted to Odor Theories’ veracity in handling the timescale of olfactory perception, how it individuates odors as a distal entities, and their claim that olfactory perception is not spatial. The paper does not aim to dispute these criticisms. Rather, (...)
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    There Is Something to the Authority Thesis.Benjamin Winokur - 2022 - Journal of Philosophical Research 47:115-132.
    Many philosophers accept an ‘Authority Thesis’ according to which self-ascriptions of one’s current mental states ordinarily are or ought to be met with a distinctive presumption of truth. Recently, however, Wolfgang Barz (2018) has argued that there is no adequately specified Authority Thesis. This, he argues, is because available specifications are either (1) philosophically puzzling but implausible, or (2) plausible but philosophically unpuzzling. I argue that there are several plausible and philosophically puzzling specifications of the Authority Thesis.
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  18. (1 other version)The Volitional Brain: Towards a Neuroscience of Free Will.Benjamin Libet, Anthony Freeman & Keith Sutherland - 1999 - Imprint Academic.
    It is widely accepted in science that the universe is a closed deterministic system in which everything can, ultimately, be explained by purely physical...
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  19. Olfactory Amodal Completion.Benjamin D. Young & Bence Nanay - 2021 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 103 (2):372-388.
    Amodal completion is the representation of those parts of the perceived object that we get no sensory stimulation from. While amodal completion is rife and plays an essential role in all sense modalities, philosophical discussions of this phenomenon have almost entirely been limited to vision. The aim of this paper is to examine in what sense we can talk about amodal completion in olfaction. We distinguish three different senses of amodal completion – spatial, temporal and feature-based completion – and argue (...)
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  20. Can conscious experience affect brain activity?Benjamin W. Libet - 2003 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 10 (12):24-28.
    The chief goal of Velmans' article is to find a way to solve the problem of how conscious experience could have bodily effects. I shall discuss his treatment of this below. First, I would like to deal with Velmans' treatment of my own studies of volition and free will in relation to brain processes. Unconscious Initiation and Conscious Veto of Freely Voluntary Acts Velmans appropriately refers to our experimental study that found that onset of an electrically observable cerebral process preceded (...)
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  21. A testable theory of mind-brain interaction.Benjamin W. Libet - 1994 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 1 (1):119-26.
    The paper begins by contrasting the unitary nature of conscious experience with the demonstrable localization of neural events. Philosophers and neuroscientists have developed models to account for this paradox, but they have yet to be tested empirically. The author proposes a `Conscious Mental Field', which is produced by, but is phenomenologically distinct from, brain activity. The hypothesis is, in principle, open to experimental verification. The paper suggests appropriate surgical procedures and some of the difficulties that would need to be overcome (...)
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  22. Enactivism's Last Breaths.Benjamin D. Young - 2017 - In M. Curado & S. Gouveia, Contemporary Perspective in the Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Olfactory perception provides a promising test case for enactivism, since smelling involves actively sampling our surrounding environment by sniffing. Smelling deploys implicit skillful knowledge of how our movement and the airflow around us yield olfactory experiences. The hybrid nature of olfactory experience makes it an ideal test case for enactivism with its esteem for touch and theoretical roots in vision. Olfaction is like vision in facilitating the perception of distal objects, yet it requires us to breath in and physically contact (...)
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    The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times.Benjamin R. Barber - 1988 - Princeton: Princeton University Press.
    The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming.
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    Justifying Investigator/Clinician Consent When The Physician-Patient Relationship Can Support Better Research Decision-Making.Benjamin S. Wilfond & Kathryn M. Porter - 2019 - American Journal of Bioethics 19 (4):26-28.
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    Neurophysiology of Consciousness: Selected Papers and New Essays.Benjamin W. Libet - 1993 - Birkhauser.
    Behav. and Brain Sci., 8, 558-566. Libet, B. (1987). 'Consciousness: Conscious, Subjective Experience.' In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience , ed. G. Adelman. ...
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  26. Olfactory imagery: is exactly what it smells like.Benjamin D. Young - 2019 - Philosophical Studies 177 (11):3303-3327.
    Mental Imagery, whereby we experience aspect of a perceptual scene or perceptual object in the absence of direct sensory stimulation is ubiquitous. Often the existence of mental imagery is demonstrated by asking one’s reader to volitionally generate a visual object, such as closing ones eyes and imagining an apple. However, mental imagery also arises in auditory, tactile, interoceptive, and olfactory cases. A number of influential philosophical theories have attempted to explain mental imagery in terms of belief-based forms of representation using (...)
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  27. Denying the stolen generations: what happens to indigenous history in a post-truth world?Benjamin T. Jones - 2021 - In Marius Gudonis & Benjamin T. Jones, History in a post-truth world: theory and praxis. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Memory Deficits for Health Information Provided Through a Telehealth Video Conferencing System.Benjamin Rich Zendel, Bethany Victoria Power, Roberta Maria DiDonato & Veronica Margaret Moore Hutchings - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    It is critical to remember details about meetings with healthcare providers. Forgetting could result in inadequate knowledge about ones' health, non-adherence with treatments, and poorer health outcomes. Hearing the health care provider plays a crucial role in consolidating information for recall. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has meant a rapid transition to videoconference-based medicine, here described as telehealth. When using telehealth speech must be filtered and compressed, and research has shown that degraded speech is more challenging to remember. Here we present (...)
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  29. The timing of mental events: Libet's experimental findings and their implications.Benjamin Libet - 2002 - Consciousness and Cognition 11 (2):291-99.
    The major findings by Libet et al. are briefly summarized. The criticisms and alternative proposals by Trevena and Miller, Pockett, and Gomes are analyzed and found to be largely unwarranted.
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    Drone culture: perspectives on autonomy and anonymity.Garfield Benjamin - 2022 - AI and Society 37 (2):635-645.
    This article addresses the problematic perspectives of drone culture. In critiquing focus on the drone’s apparent ‘autonomy’, it argues that such devices function as part of a socio-technical network. They are relational parts of human–machine interaction that, in our changing geopolitical realities, have a powerful influence on politics, reputation and warfare. Drawing on Žižek’s conception of parallax, the article stresses the importance of culture and perception in forming the role of the drone in widening power asymmetries. It examines how perceptions (...)
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  31. Action, control and sensations of acting.Benjamin Mossel - 2005 - Philosophical Studies 124 (2):129-180.
    Sensations of acting and control have been neglected in theory of action. I argue that they form the core of action and are integral and indispensible parts of our actions, participating as they do in feedback loops consisting of our intentions in acting, the bodily movements required for acting and the sensations of acting. These feedback loops underlie all activities in which we engage when we act and generate our control over our movements.The events required for action according to the (...)
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  32. Consciousness, free action and the brain: Commentary on John Searle's article (with reply from Searle).Benjamin W. Libet - 2001 - Journal of Consciousness Studies 8 (8):59-65.
    Commentary on John Searle's Article John Searle presents a philosopher's view of how conscious experience and free action relate to brain function. That view demands an examination by a neuroscientist who has experimentally investigated this issue.
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    (1 other version)Standing to Punish the Disadvantaged.Benjamin S. Yost - 2022 - Criminal Law and Philosophy (3):1-23.
    Many philosophers and legal theorists worry about punishing the socially disadvantaged as severely as their advantaged counterparts. One philosophically popular explanation of this concern is couched in terms of moral standing: seriously unjust states are said to lack standing to condemn disadvantaged offenders. If this is the case, institutional condemnation of disadvantaged offenders (especially via hard treatment) will often be unjust. I describe two problems with canonical versions of this view. First, its proponents groundlessly claim that disadvantaged offenders may be (...)
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    An out‐of‐equilibrium definition of protein turnover.Benjamin Martin & David M. Suter - 2023 - Bioessays 45 (6):2200209.
    Protein turnover (PT) has been formally defined only in equilibrium conditions, which is ill‐suited to quantify PT during dynamic processes that occur during embryogenesis or (extra) cellular signaling. In this Hypothesis, we propose a definition of PT in an out‐of‐equilibrium regime that allows the quantification of PT in virtually any biological context. We propose a simple mathematical and conceptual framework applicable to a broad range of available data, such as RNA sequencing coupled with pulsed‐SILAC datasets. We apply our framework to (...)
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  35. Compatibilism and the notion of rendering something false.Benjamin Sebastian Schnieder - 2004 - Philosophical Studies 117 (3):409-428.
    In my paper I am concerned with Peter van Inwagen's Consequence Argument. I focus on its probably best known version. In this form it crucially employs the notion of rendering a proposition false, anotion that has never been made sufficiently clear. The main aim of my paper is to shed light on thisnotion. The explications offered so far in thedebate all are based on modal concepts. Iargue that for sufficient results a ``stronger'', hyper-intensional concept is needed, namely the concept expressed (...)
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  36. I. How Swiss is Rousseau?Benjamin R. Barber - 1985 - Political Theory 13 (4):475-495.
  37. Liberal democracy and the costs of consent.Benjamin Barber - 1989 - In Nancy L. Rosenblum, Liberalism and the Moral Life. Harvard University Press. pp. 54--68.
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    Implementation and profitability of sustainable investment strategies: An errors-in-variables perspective.Benjamin R. Auer - 2021 - Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 30 (4):619-638.
    Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, EarlyView.
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    L’exercice de la critique en art écologique.Benjamin Arnault - 2021 - Nouvelle Revue d'Esthétique 27 (1):67-75.
    Le Manifeste du rio Negro (in Journal du rio Negro, 1978-2014) est l’un des premiers textes majeurs publiés en France au sujet de l’art écologique. Quoique d’un impact limité lors de sa diffusion, il est désormais repris et commenté par les acteurs de l’art contemporain. Dans ce texte, Pierre Restany s’inquiète de la relation art-nature, une fois n’est pas coutume. À partir de notre lecture de son journal, nous interrogeons les gestes des successeurs de Restany. Depuis l’émergence de l’art écologique, (...)
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    Book ReviewsWilliam Connolly,. Pluralism.Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 195. $69.95 ; $19.95.Benjamin Barber - 2007 - Ethics 117 (4):747-754.
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    Time Factors in Conscious Processes: Reply to Gilberto Gomes.Benjamin Libet - 2000 - Consciousness and Cognition 9 (1):1-12.
    The critical reinterpretations of Libet's research by G. Gomes make speculative, unwarranted, and untested assumptions. These assumptions and arguments are analyzed and their status relative to Libet's findings is criticized.
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    Enrolling Adolescents with Rare Disease for Early Phase Clinical Trials While Under the Care of Child Protection Services: Balancing Protection and Access.Benjamin S. Wilfond, Devan M. Duenas & Liza-Marie Johnson - 2022 - American Journal of Bioethics 22 (4):81-82.
    For many rare diseases, the availability of effective interventions is limited or non-existent. In this context, clinical research evaluating emerging interventions may be the only potentially “the...
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    Caesar's church: the irrational in science and philosophy.Benjamin Walker - 2001 - Sussex, England: Book Guild.
    Provides an insight into the ever changing boundaries between science and philosophy.
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    Retroactive enhancement of a skin sensation by a delayed cortical stimulus in man: Evidence for delay of a conscious sensory experience.Benjamin W. Libet, E. W. Wright, B. Feinstein & D. K. Pearl - 1992 - Consciousness and Cognition 1 (3):367-75.
    Sensation elicited by a skin stimulus was subjectively reported to feel stronger when followed by a stimulus to somatosensory cerebral cortex , even when C was delayed by up to 400 ms or more. This expands the potentiality for retroactive effects beyond that previously known as backward masking. It also demonstrates that the content of a sensory experience can be altered by another cerebral input introduced after the sensory signal arrives at the cortex. The long effective S-C intervals support the (...)
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  45. Timing of conscious experience: Reply to the 2002 commentaries on Libet’s findings.Benjamin Libet - 2003 - Consciousness and Cognition 12 (3):321-331.
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    Challenging cases in clinical research ethics.Benjamin S. Wilfond, Liza-Marie Johnson, Devan M. Duenas & Holly A. Taylor (eds.) - 2023 - London: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
    Clinical research ethics consultation has emerged in the last 15 years as a service to those involved in the conduct of clinical research who face challenging issues for which more than one course of action may be justified. To respond to a growing field and need for opportunities to share knowledge and experience, the Clinical Research Ethics Consultation Collaborative, established in 2014, holds monthly webinars for its 90 members to present their most challenging cases to each other and engage in (...)
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    Comparative moral economies of crisis.Benjamin Manning & Craig Browne - 2022 - Thesis Eleven 170 (1):78-98.
    At times of crisis, existing institutional arrangements of societies are thrown into question. Crises that occur in multiple societies simultaneously present rare opportunities for comparative empirical analysis. Social theory can reveal the framing conditions of the responses to crises and the sources of variations between them. This paper compares the immediate responses of the Australian, UK and US governments to the global COVID-19 pandemic, particularly with regard to financing lockdowns, and points out significant differences between the three approaches. Drawing on (...)
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    Three Ideas from American Pragmatism Interpreted in Terms of Whitehead's Metaphysics.Benjamin Andrae - 2019 - Process Studies 48 (2):254-272.
    This article is an attempt to examine and clarify the truth theory of American pragmatism. Three central ideas of this truth theory will be considered in light of Whitehead's metaphysics: a rejection of the correspondence theory of truth, a defense of fallibilism, and a recognition of the temporality of truth.
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  49. Neural processes in the production of conscious experiences.Benjamin W. Libet - 1996 - In Max Velmans, The Science of Consciousness: Psychological, Neuropsychological, and Clinical Reviews. New York: Routledge.
  50. Nick Aitchison, Macbeth: Man and Myth. Stroud, Eng.: Sutton, 1999. Pp. viii, 216; black-and-white figures. $34.95.Benjamin Hudson - 2001 - Speculum 76 (3):681-681.
     
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