Other Classes
Notes and essays from other classes I took at Berkeley, outside of Cognitive Science — things like literature and statistics. Organized by class, same as the Studies page.
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Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
A reading and composition class examining how illness, medicine, and the body get written about and represented.
- Analysis of Audre Lorde’s short story The Cancer Journals
- “The Bliss in Ignorance”: An Analytical Exercise on Alan Shapiro’s Vigil
- Essay on Siddhartha Mukherjee’s novel, The Emperor of All Maladies
- Analysis on Illness Narratives: The First Cell and The Emperor of All Maladies, by Azra Raza and Siddhartha Mukherjee
- From Denial to Acceptance: Essay on Alan Shapiro’s Vigil
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Introduction to Human Physiology
Lecture notes covering the major organ systems of the human body — from cell metabolism and membrane transport through the nervous, endocrine, muscular, and cardiovascular systems.
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Chapter 1 — Introduction to Physiology
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Chapter 2 — Cell Structure
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Chapter 3 — Cell Metabolism
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Chapter 4 — Cell Membrane Transport
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Chapter 5 — Chemical Messengers
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Chapter 6 — Endocrine System
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Chapter 7 — Nerve Cells and Electrical Signaling
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Chapter 8 — Synaptic Transmission and Neural Integration
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Chapter 9 — Central Nervous System
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Chapter 10 — Sensory Systems
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Chapter 11 — Autonomic and Motor Systems
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Chapter 12 — Muscle Physiology
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Chapter 13 — Cardiovascular System
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Chapter 14 — Blood Vessels, Flow, and Pressure
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Individual Morality and Social Justice
Notes on the philosophers and readings covered in the course.
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Bentham
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Chapter Two
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Donald Marquis
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Harry Frankfurt
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James Rachels
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J.J.C. Smart
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J.L. Mackie
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John Mill
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John Taurek
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Judith Thomson
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Kant
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Margaret Little
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Melville Herskovits
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Nozick
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Peter Singer
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Thomas Nagel
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Thomson — Abortion
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