I don't know if you've been following this....but apparently the treatment for a deadly infection called "Clostridium difficile" (or "c-diff") is to transplant fecal material from one person to another. Now there's a new treatment in which the fecal material is delivered via a pill - a "poop pill" as it is being called. Nothing like talking about poop to wake students out of their dulldrums. The challenge is how to get people past our aversion to fecal matter so that they take their medicine. Students might have some good suggestions on this one, such as coating the pill in colorful sweetness, this associating it with a positive rather than negative reaction. The discussion could fit into a chapter on learning, though not really purely Pavlovian..."associative learning"? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/poop-pills-c-diff-infection_n_5978230.html
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