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Self-experimentation refers to scientific experimentation in which the experimenter conducts the experiment on themself. Often this means that the designer, operator, subject, analyst, and user or reporter of the experiment are all the same. Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present ...
Self-experimentation has a long and well-documented history in medicine which continues to the present day. [3] For example, after failed attempts to infect piglets in 1984, Barry Marshall drank a petri dish of Helicobacter pylori from a patient, and soon developed gastritis, achlorhydria, stomach discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and halitosis. [4]
Through self-experimentation, he set out to solve this problem by varying aspects of his lifestyle, like exercise and calcium intake. [8] After many failures to see an improvement in his sleep, he eventually discovered that delaying breakfast, seeing faces in the morning, morning light, and standing solved this problem. [ 9 ]
The history of experimental research is long and varied. Indeed, the definition of an experiment itself has changed in responses to changing norms and practices within particular fields of study. Indeed, the definition of an experiment itself has changed in responses to changing norms and practices within particular fields of study.
The editorial introducing the focus theme is titled "Single Subject (N-of-1) Research Design, Data Processing, and Personal Science" [3] is co-authored by Gary Wolf, who together with Kevin Kelly coined the phrase the quantified self. In the editorial, personal science was described as "self-directed N-of-1 studies".
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
The "Black Books" are not personal diaries, but the records of the unique self-experimentation which Jung called his ‘confrontation with the unconscious’. He did not record day to day happenings or outer events, but his active imaginations and depictions of his mental states together with his reflections on these.
The former Chancellor of Germany writes about two lives: her early years growing up under a Communist-controlled police state in East Germany, and her years as leader of a nation reunited ...