Papers by David Rothenberg
Melody and rhythm in Nightingale song
Melody and rhythm in Nightingale song
A Parliament of minds: philosophy for a new millennium
Choice Reviews Online, 2000
Philosophy for a New Millennia A PARLIAMENT o ndiEsd u/ Michael Tobiasy J. Patrick Fitzgerald/ an... more Philosophy for a New Millennia A PARLIAMENT o ndiEsd u/ Michael Tobiasy J. Patrick Fitzgerald/ and David Rothenberg ... A PARLIAMENT OF MINDS This On© 3Y-NZB-FZ2P ... A PARLIAMENT OF MINDS PkUosoptw for & NeMrMUlmjiium/ Edited by Michael Tobias ...
Editorial: ethics, economics and outcomes
Current opinion in anaesthesiology, 2014
DOI:10.1097/ACO.0000000000000066 I am privileged, once again, to have had the opportunity to brin... more DOI:10.1097/ACO.0000000000000066 I am privileged, once again, to have had the opportunity to bring together a distinguished group of clinicians and researchers to review this year’s selected topics as they relate to perioperative medical ethics, economic considerations of anesthesia practice and postoperative clinical outcomes. Dr James West (pp. 170–176) reviews the past and current ethical concerns surrounding the perioperative care of the Jehovah’s Witness patient. The premise of the 1960s US television game show Password, was for a contestant to convey a secret ‘password’ to another contestant using only one-word clues. Should there have been a medical version of this show, and the secret word(s) being conveyed was Jehovah’s Witness, the invariable response would be ‘no blood transfusion’. Dr West discusses the historical nature of this religious sect’s prohibition against such practice, detailing the biblical passages by which the Watchtower’s hierarchy has promulgated their tenets over the past 70 years. Anesthesiologists who are at the forefront of perioperative transfusion medicine must be keenly aware of their respective state (USA) or country laws governing the circumstances in which a Jehovah’s Witness may refuse a potentially to life-saving blood transfusion. In this regard, there is no other area wherein the practice of medicine is so intertwined with the law. The development of ‘bloodless’ surgical and anesthesia techniques have allowed for the Jehovah’s Witness to have similar outcomes when compared with the non-Jehovah’s Witness population, even for procedures, such as open-heart surgery. Society as a whole has benefited from having adopted these techniques into every practice for the nonJehovah’s Witness. In this regard, all Jehovah Witness’s when undergoing surgery, in the sense that none desire inherently risky blood transfusion, but unlike the Jehovah’s Witness, most would rather not die than be transfused. Finally, the religion itself is evolving in that many of the Jehovah’s Witness faith are calling into question (anonymously online and in print) the original doctrine forbidding transfusion. As such, it is imperative that each patient be questioned privately by their treating surgeon and anesthesiologist to clearly delineate their transfusion beliefs.
Ethics, economics and outcome
Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology, 2013
DOI:10.1097/ACO.0b013e32835e83c6 It is my distinct honor to have the opportunity to offer an edit... more DOI:10.1097/ACO.0b013e32835e83c6 It is my distinct honor to have the opportunity to offer an editorial comment to this year’s section on Ethics, Economics and Outcome. A group of internationally recognized experts have reviewed six relevant topics that either directly or indirectly relate ethical clinical practice with clinical outcome, while to a certain degree, addressing economic impact on patient care and/or medical education. Dr Shear (pp. 159–163) addresses the question of whether medical training with human patient simulation leads to improved patient outcome. Citing the USA’s Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) 1999 report, ‘To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System’, which concluded that tens of thousands of lives are lost each year due to preventable medical error, he explores the past 25 years of the anesthesiology community’s efforts to improve patient safety through simulation training. (It is important to note that the IOM’s report is based solely on an extrapolation of data gleaned from two large studies detailing adverse events in Colorado and Utah hospitals and from a number of hospitals in New York.) Statistical merit aside, by no means should one question the report’s message, in that there is always a need to improve methods of our medical training and in so doing, hopefully decreasing risk to patients. The growing body of literature suggests that when human patient simulation and task trainers are employed as educational tools, individual, group and healthcare system performances improve. This should come as no surprise to educators who have recognized for some time the ineffectiveness of lecture-based learning in conveying knowledge (see PowerPoint etc.). What will need to be assessed in future studies is whether simulation leads to long-term retention of knowledge and skills (not usually seen with such hands-on training such as Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Advanced Cardiac Life Support courses), and in turn, as Dr Shear notes, a decrease in physician error and improvement in patient outcome. In a discussion of the use of corticosteroids for the treatment of critical illness, Batzofin et al. (pp. 164–170) rightly conclude that there are few circumstances in which corticosteroids have been shown to improve outcome and then, usually as a route of last resort. In this regard, the use of
Virtual seminar on the bioapparatus
Includes a text based on transcripts of proceedings of a seminar on the "bioapparatus,"... more Includes a text based on transcripts of proceedings of a seminar on the "bioapparatus," conceived as the focus of issues concerning technology and the body. Statements by 20 artists and writers treat such topics as natural artifice, designing the social, virtual reality, art machines, and aural/visual space. Biographical notes on the participants.
Electronic Green Journal, 2002
Gradations of Light: A suite of graphic scores by Jo Ganter and Marilyn Crispell
Art & Perception, 2015
The humpback whale sings a song that defies easy characterization and human perception. This pape... more The humpback whale sings a song that defies easy characterization and human perception. This paper attempts to develop a new form a visual notation for this song which enables humans to better perceive its musicality, tonality and morphology, combining elements of sonographic and musical notations. The beauty of the humpback whale song is considered as to whether it is an inherent characteristic or a human projection.
Royal Society Open Science, 2016
Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition and novelty. Here, we report a simila... more Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their songs include many phrase types. The more phrase types in a bird's repertoire, the more diverse the singing performance can be. However, without sufficient temporal organization, avian listeners may find diverse singing performances difficult to perceive and memorize. We tested for a correlation between the complexity of song repertoire and the temporal regularity of singing performance. We found that different phrase types often share motifs (notes or stereotyped groups of notes). These shared motifs reappeared in strikingly regular temporal intervals across different phrase types, over hundreds of phrases produced without interruption by each bird. We developed a statistical estimate to quantify the degree to which phrase transition structure is optimized for maximizing the regularity of shared mot...
Writing on Water
Water links all aspects of our existence. From the politics of watersheds to the romance of turtl... more Water links all aspects of our existence. From the politics of watersheds to the romance of turtles climbing up from the sea to the beaches, from Leonardo da Vinci to Octavio Paz, from death at a hot spring to the practicalities of liquidation, the writings in this collection reflect on many aspects of the human encounter with water.The book contains some science, a few plans for managing and protecting water, and plenty of stories, poems, essays, and artwork. The writers include Bob Braine Robert Grudin, Wilson Harris, George Keithley, David Morse, Octavio Paz, physicist Sidney Perkowitz, Eva Salzman, Ted Steinberg, and Peter Warshall, editor of Whole Earth magazine. Photographers include Cyril Christo, Adam David Clayman, Monique Crepault, Helen M. Ellis, Sally Gall, Margaret McCarthy, Kristin Ordahl, Jerry Uelsmann, and Marie Wilkinson.This is the second in a series of Terra Nova books from MIT Press, which aim to show that environmental issues are cultural and artistic as well as practical and political.
This title talks about air in our everyday and imaginative lives, as portrayed by a wide range of... more This title talks about air in our everyday and imaginative lives, as portrayed by a wide range of writers, photographers, and artists. For centuries, humans have tried to master air. Sea captains rein it in with their sails, and pilots cut through it with their wings. We have machines to pump air into our lungs and computers to anticipate the movement of the winds. Air pervades everything we do and gives us life, yet it is impossible to capture. We can only evoke it through images, impressions, and feelings. This book offers a collage of such evocations expressed through prose, poetry, photography, and drawings. From aerial plankton to Navajo wind gods, from gentle breezes to violent storms, "Writing on Air" creates a fresh way of thinking about the role of air in our everyday lives. Included in the book are prose pieces by poet Hayden Carruth, paulo da costa, Kristjana Gunnars, filammaker Werner Herzog, Howard Mansfield, Sarah Menin, and C. L. Rawlins; an excerpt from a p...
… Music Review= Revista Transcultural de Música, 2008
How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org ... more How to cite Complete issue More information about this article Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Scientific Information System Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative To Wail With a Whale: Anatomy of an Interspecies Duet
I dreamed I woke up under water
Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 1973
Geographical Review, 1987
The book of music and nature: an anthology of sounds, words, thoughts
... 156 Lounge Lizard 170 Photograph by Jaanika Peerna 180 Photograph by Marilyn Ulvaeus 224 Lyre... more ... 156 Lounge Lizard 170 Photograph by Jaanika Peerna 180 Photograph by Marilyn Ulvaeus 224 Lyrebird 230 Ram Saran Nepali. ... Goldstein, Chris Watson, Andra McCartney, Jim Cummings, Sarah Peebles, Rene van Peer, Peter Warshall, Gayle Young, Jason Reinier, Ben Neill ...
Hearing Research, 2014
Songbirds spend much of their time learning, producing, and listening to complex vocal sequences ... more Songbirds spend much of their time learning, producing, and listening to complex vocal sequences we call songs. Songs are learned via cultural transmission, and singing, usually by males, has a strong impact on the behavioral state of the listeners, often promoting affiliation, pair bonding, or aggression. What is it in the acoustic structure of birdsong that makes it such a potent stimulus? We suggest that birdsong potency might be driven by principles similar to those that make music so effective in inducing emotional responses in humans: a combination of rhythms and pitchesdand the transitions between acoustic statesdaffecting emotions through creating expectations, anticipations, tension, tension release, or surprise. Here we propose a framework for investigating how birdsong, like human music, employs the above "musical" features to affect the emotions of avian listeners. First we analyze songs of thrush nightingales (Luscinia luscinia) by examining their trajectories in terms of transitions in rhythm and pitch. These transitions show gradual escalations and graceful modifications, which are comparable to some aspects of human musicality. We then explore the feasibility of stripping such putative musical features from the songs and testing how this might affect patterns of auditory responses, focusing on fMRI data in songbirds that demonstrate the feasibility of such approaches. Finally, we explore ideas for investigating whether musical features of birdsong activate avian brains and affect avian behavior in manners comparable to music's effects on humans. In conclusion, we suggest that birdsong research would benefit from current advances in music theory by attempting to identify structures that are designed to elicit listeners' emotions and then testing for such effects experimentally. Birdsong research that takes into account the striking complexity of song structure in light of its more immediate function e to affect behavioral state in listeners e could provide a useful animal model for studying basic principles of music neuroscience in a system that is very accessible for investigation, and where developmental auditory and social experience can be tightly controlled. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled <Music: A window into the hearing brain>.
Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition
and novelty. Here, we report a simila... more Music maintains a characteristic balance between repetition
and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing
performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their
songs include many phrase types. The more phrase types in a
bird’s repertoire, the more diverse the singing performance can
be. However, without sufficient temporal organization, avian
listeners may find diverse singing performances difficult to
perceive and memorize. We tested for a correlation between
the complexity of song repertoire and the temporal regularity
of singing performance. We found that different phrase types
often share motifs (notes or stereotyped groups of notes).
These shared motifs reappeared in strikingly regular temporal
intervals across different phrase types, over hundreds of
phrases produced without interruption by each bird. We
developed a statistical estimate to quantify the degree to
which phrase transition structure is optimized for maximizing
the regularity of shared motifs. We found that transition
probabilities between phrase types tend to maximize regularity
in the repetition of shared motifs, but only in birds of high
repertoire complexity. Conversely, in birds of low repertoire
complexity, shared motifs were produced with less regularity.
The strong correlation between repertoire complexity and
motif regularity suggests that birds possess a mechanism that
regulates the temporal placement of shared motifs in a manner
that takes repertoire complexity into account. We discuss
alternative musical, mechanistic and ecological explanations
to this effect.
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2014
The World and the Wild
Pacific Affairs, 2002
... initiatives that are working with the help of the locals and an understanding of history (&qu... more ... initiatives that are working with the help of the locals and an understanding of history ("In the Dust of Kilimanjaro" by David ... Kathleen Harrison illustrates how first-world developments are opening up lands in developing countries for the benefit of corporations from the developed ...
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and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing
performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their
songs include many phrase types. The more phrase types in a
bird’s repertoire, the more diverse the singing performance can
be. However, without sufficient temporal organization, avian
listeners may find diverse singing performances difficult to
perceive and memorize. We tested for a correlation between
the complexity of song repertoire and the temporal regularity
of singing performance. We found that different phrase types
often share motifs (notes or stereotyped groups of notes).
These shared motifs reappeared in strikingly regular temporal
intervals across different phrase types, over hundreds of
phrases produced without interruption by each bird. We
developed a statistical estimate to quantify the degree to
which phrase transition structure is optimized for maximizing
the regularity of shared motifs. We found that transition
probabilities between phrase types tend to maximize regularity
in the repetition of shared motifs, but only in birds of high
repertoire complexity. Conversely, in birds of low repertoire
complexity, shared motifs were produced with less regularity.
The strong correlation between repertoire complexity and
motif regularity suggests that birds possess a mechanism that
regulates the temporal placement of shared motifs in a manner
that takes repertoire complexity into account. We discuss
alternative musical, mechanistic and ecological explanations
to this effect.
and novelty. Here, we report a similar balance in singing
performances of free-living Australian pied butcherbirds. Their
songs include many phrase types. The more phrase types in a
bird’s repertoire, the more diverse the singing performance can
be. However, without sufficient temporal organization, avian
listeners may find diverse singing performances difficult to
perceive and memorize. We tested for a correlation between
the complexity of song repertoire and the temporal regularity
of singing performance. We found that different phrase types
often share motifs (notes or stereotyped groups of notes).
These shared motifs reappeared in strikingly regular temporal
intervals across different phrase types, over hundreds of
phrases produced without interruption by each bird. We
developed a statistical estimate to quantify the degree to
which phrase transition structure is optimized for maximizing
the regularity of shared motifs. We found that transition
probabilities between phrase types tend to maximize regularity
in the repetition of shared motifs, but only in birds of high
repertoire complexity. Conversely, in birds of low repertoire
complexity, shared motifs were produced with less regularity.
The strong correlation between repertoire complexity and
motif regularity suggests that birds possess a mechanism that
regulates the temporal placement of shared motifs in a manner
that takes repertoire complexity into account. We discuss
alternative musical, mechanistic and ecological explanations
to this effect.