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    Studying dream content using the archive and search engine on DreamBank.net
    with G. William Domhoff
    Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4): 1238-1247. 2008.
    This paper shows how the dream archive and search engine on DreamBank.net, a Web site containing over 22,000 dream reports, can be used to generate new findings on dream content, some of which raise interesting questions about the relationship between dreaming and various forms of waking thought. It begins with studies that draw dream reports from DreamBank.net for studies of social networks in dreams, and then demonstrates the usefulness of the search engine by employing word strings relating t…Read more
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    Similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels
    with G. William Domhoff
    Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4): 1257-1265. 2008.
    The similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels provide one starting point for carrying out studies that attempt to discover correspondences between dream content and various types of waking cognition. Hobson and Kahn’s . Dream content: Individual and generic aspects. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 850–858.) conclusion that dream content may be more generic than most researchers realize, and that individual differences are less salient tha…Read more
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    Listening to Quackery: Reading John Wesley’s Primitive Physic in an Age of Health Care Reform
    with Daniel Skinner
    Journal of Medical Humanities 40 (1): 69-83. 2019.
    This article uses a reading of John Wesley's Primitive Physic, or An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases (1747) to resist the common rejection—often as "quackery"—of Wesley's treatments for common maladies. We engage Wesley not because he was right but because his approach offers useful moments of pause in light of contemporary medical epistemology. Wesley's recommendations were primarily oriented towards the categories of personal responsibility and capability, but he also sought to…Read more
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    Similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels
    with G. Domhoff
    Consciousness and Cognition 17 (4): 1257-1265. 2008.
    The similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels provide one starting point for carrying out studies that attempt to discover correspondences between dream content and various types of waking cognition. Hobson and Kahn’s. Dream content: Individual and generic aspects. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 850–858.) conclusion that dream content may be more generic than most researchers realize, and that individual differences are less salient than…Read more