Chloroform: Commissions and Omissions

The Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions

33. Almost like lesults were obtained by partially asphyxiating a clog as explained in the following experiment. The animal had been anaesthetised and its left carotid artery connected with both a Fick-Manometer and a Ludwio-'d spring-kymograph. It was arranged previously, that on eacli occasion on which a signal would be given, the chloroform cap was to be held closely over the mouth and nose,...

The "Lancet" and the Hyderabad Commissions on Chloroform

Three investigations had already been made on the action of chloroform?by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, by the Glasgow Commission, and by the first Hyderabad Commission?when, further to test the finding of the last-mentioned, the members of the second Hyderabad Commission were called together in 1889. After a long course of research, involving experiments on 430 animals, the Commis...

Coffee with jelly or unbuttered toast: commissions and omissions are dissociable aspects of everyday action impairment in Alzheimer's disease.

Relative to our understanding of the memory and language deficits associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about problems with everyday action performance (i.e., meal preparation, grooming). The resource theory proposes that everyday action problems are best explained by a unitary deficit in general cognitive resources. However, recent research suggests that omission and commis...

Omissions and Causalism∗

Omissions are puzzling, so puzzling that people tend to say puzzling things about them and give up otherwise attractive philosophical theories in order to accommodate them.1 In this paper I suggest that omissions make trouble—serious trouble, and trouble of a new, sui generis kind—for “causalism,” the standard view or family of views of agency. In particular, I am interested in causalism as an ...

Acts and omissions revisited.