Hi Another great "poop" story is Goldberger's work to demonstrate that Pellagra was a dietary rather than infectious disease. In addition to some very nice manipulations of diet (both to prevent and to induce the disease), Goldberger, his wife, and some friends conducted "filth parties" in which matter from diseased patients (including fecal matter) was mixed with dough and swallowed. No one got Pellagra. Here's one of many summaries of his work.
http://www.swjpcc.com/general-medicine/2012/6/8/profiles-in-medical-courage-joseph-goldberger-the-sharecropp.html Apparently science-minded people will overcome their aversion to poop in the name of knowledge! Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 4L41A From: Michael Britt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 6:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] This Looks Like a Job for a Psychologist! 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 Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&n=T&l=tips&o=39158 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-39158-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-39158-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=39163 or send a blank email to leave-39163-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
