ECOLOGICAL DISHARMONY AS THE SIN AGAINST THE SPIRIT

Electroshock: a crime against the spirit.

Since its introduction in 1938, electroshock (electroconvulsive treatment, ECT) has been to its proponents a blessing and to its critics a curse. The author, himself an insulin coma-electroshock survivor, sides with the critics arguing that ECT is inherently harmful and dehumanizing. To support his views, he cites findings and comments from the professional literature in four areas: brain damag...

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Recollecting the Spirit of Jihad

Preventing sin: the ethics of vaccines against smoking.

Advances in immunotherapy are paving the way toward vaccines that target unhealthy behaviors, such as a vaccine that blocks the action of nicotine, reducing the pleasure caused by smoking. Such a tool could prove to be an effective tool for preventing children from taking up smoking. Would it be permissible? The alarming rates of smoking, obesity, and substance abuse pose an enormous challenge ...

CAPA: The Spirit of Beaver against Physical Attacks

In this paper we introduce CAPA: a combined countermeasure against physical attacks. Our countermeasure provides security against higher-order SCA, multiple-shot DFA and combined attacks, scales to arbitrary protection order and is suitable for implementation in embedded hardware and software. The methodology is based on an attack model which we call tile-probe-and-fault, which is an extension ...