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This vintage rape case concerns an Alabama court’s determination that the jury may consider “social conditions and customs founded upon racial differences, such that the prosecutrix was a white woman and the defendant was a Negro man” in assessing a Black defendant’s culpability for assault with intent to rape. This case represents how rape law was weaponized against Black men and is an ideal case for a feminist rewritten opinion to interrogate how race and rape are closely intertwined.
The chapter looks at two heterosexual killers who made extensive confessions of their crimes: Gerald Stano and Gary Ridgway. It looks at their similarities and differences. Both had unhappy childhoods with sibling rivalry and the experience of bullying and taunting, and both felt inferior and failures in life. Each killer revealed a fusion of sex and violence, and showed evidence of stress exacerbating their toxic behaviour, both chronically and acutely (e.g. mocking remarks by a sex worker). As a difference, Stano but not Ridgway was adopted. Stano’s physical condition was very poor at the time of adoption, which might have been associated with brain damage. Ridgeway but not Stano was married and had secure employment. Stano displayed considerable sexual envy towards courting couples. The two killers either exclusively (Ridgway) or commonly (Stano) targeted sex workers. Each showed non-lethal choking of a regular partner.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is an established treatment for post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). Some patients diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) experience PTSD following choking or suffocation in the course of progressive loss of the ability to breathe. Although a loss of breathing functions in ALS is relatively common, there are currently no studies available on treatment for the fear of choking following advanced ALS.
Methods
In this case study, we describe the positive effects of EMDR, an evidence-based form of trauma therapy, in a 48-year-old female, suffering from advanced ALS. As the consequence of ALS, she was not able to speak or breath independently, but could communicate through a speech-generating device. She experienced panic attacks, flashbacks, nightmares, and severe anxiety after her tracheostomy jammed, and she almost suffocated.
Results
Mediative treatment was started by instructing the care staff to respond neutrally with step-by-step instructions following tracheostomy jam, resulting in significantly less panic attacks and flashbacks. EMDR was initiated two weeks later, and resulted in full remittance of the trauma symptomatology.
Significance of the results
The present case study suggests that symptoms of PTSD, namely the strong fear of suffocation, can be successfully treated by means of mediative behavioral therapy combined with EMDR.
Since its promotion in 1974, the Heimlich Maneuver has been an invaluable first-aid procedure, which is believed to have saved the lives of countless thousands of choking victims. Henry Heimlich’s life story is one motivated by saving people from unnecessary death and injury. His painstaking development of the abdominal thrust technique is an arresting tale in and of itself. But, so too were his determined efforts to popularize the method in order that ordinary citizens too could become lifesaving heroes. Nevertheless, suffocation by ingestion or inhalation remains the fourth most common cause of preventable death in the United States, requiring that the general public be simply and properly taught on a continuing basis how to administer this vital technique.
This chapter describes a streamline curvature throughflow method which has been developed specially for radial machines, such as centrifugal compressor stages, pumps and radial turbines. The method can also be used for axial machines, both compressors and turbines, and for axial compressors with a centrifugal rear stage. The terms in the governing equation are described in some detail to illustrate how the geometry controls the pressure and flow gradients both along and normal to the streamlines in the compressor. Such codes have been in use since the 1960s as they a offer a good overview of the ideal velocity and pressure distributions through a component. They also highlight blade loading issues and identify risks of choking. In the design process, the throughflow method weeds out the weakest design options very quickly and thus eliminates the need for more complex, time-consuming CFD simulations on poor designs. A comparison of a throughflow calculation with the test results on the Eckardt impeller A shows the limits of the method and the efficacy of this procedure for preliminary design.
Action and responsibility are often linked to control, but skilled behavior reveals a tension in the way we think about control: control is sometimes thought to require flexibility, other times reliability. Yet, flexibility and reliability compete with one another, as we see in skilled behavior; the habituation behind skill provides more reliability, but less flexibility. Thus, accounts of intentional action are split on how to handle skilled behavior. I call this the “problem of skilled behavior” – skilled behavior seems both more and less within our control, so how can we account for it within a unitary model of control? Most traditional accounts adopt a unitary model of control within a "dual-process" model of behavior, which treats all behavior as either controlled or automatic, or some combination of these. I suggest instead a "hierarchical model" of behavioral control, in which behavior can benefit from either attention-based control, which has the benefit of flexibility, or strategic automaticity, which has the benefit of reliability. I argue that action and responsibility can be based in either form of control against "attention-for-action" theorists, such as Fridland and Wu.
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