Bentham: our contemporary?

Microemboli in our bypass circuits: a contemporary audit.

Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) may introduce microemboli into the patient's arterial circulation. These may arise from the CPB circuit. Most relevant studies have been performed in vitro; there are relatively few clinical studies. We used the Emboli Detection and Classification quantifier (EDAC) (Luna Innovations, Roanoke, VA) in a prospective clinical audit of emboli in a contemporary CPB circui...

Back to Bentham? Explorations of Experienced Utility

Two core meanings of “utility” are distinguished. “Decision utility” is the weight of an outcome in a decision. “Experienced utility” is hedonic quality, as in Bentham’s usage. Experienced utility can be reported in real time (instant utility), or in retrospective evaluations of past episodes (remembered utility). Psychological research has documented systematic errors in retrospective evaluati...

An A-Z of medical philosophy: Bentham, Mill, and Utilitarianism.

Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) was a one man social revolution. He was a lawyer who sought to reform the penal code. He designed the first high surveillance jail. He founded University College London. He drafted the first new South American constitutions for his friend Simon Bolivar. And when he died his will stated that his body should be stuffed and dressed in his clothes so that he could still p...

The auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham at University College, London.

THE foundation in I826 of the University of London (ten years later renamed University College) was made secure by its outstanding success as a medical school. It was not until I849 that the medical students were outnumbered by those in arts and laws, so great was the demand for organized medical education open to all comers. In addition, one of the obstacles to medical instruction was removed ...

Food Rebellion: Contemporary Food Movements as a Reflection of Our Agrarian Past