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{"title":"Transcatheter aortic valve intervention in hospitals without cardiac surgery departments: a future scenario?","authors":"Stefano Rigattieri, Chiara Bernelli, Francesco Tomassini, Giorgio Caretta, Shahram Moshiri, Andrea Berni, Ferdinando Varbella, Alberto Menozzi","doi":"10.23736/S2724-5683.22.06076-8","DOIUrl":"10.23736/S2724-5683.22.06076-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAVI) was introduced in early 2000 to offer treatment to inoperable patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. In a couple of decades, the procedure resulted effective and safe also in patients with intermediate to low risk for surgery; therefore, due to the progressive ageing of the population, the clinical need for TAVI is continuously increasing and is hardly met by the availability of the procedure, the so-called \"TAVI capacity\". As a result, many patients encounter difficulties in being referred to TAVI centers or face long waiting list times, thus risking severe adverse events (including death) before the procedure is performed. Although contemporary guidelines and consensus documents recommend that TAVI should only be performed in hospitals with active cardiac surgery departments, starting TAVI programs also in interventional cardiac laboratories without on-site cardiac surgery could represent a way to increase TAVI capacity, thus leading to a greater number of patients being treated in less time. On the other side of the coin, such a strategy may jeopardize patient safety in case of periprocedural complications needing bailout surgery and may lead to a suboptimal multidisciplinary Heart Team evaluation. This review aims to assess and discuss available clinical data and implementation of TAVI programs in hospitals without on-site active cardiac surgery departments considering the growing unmet clinical need and technical advancement of TAVI platforms, yet not overlooking the recommendations of international scientific societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"33 1","pages":"204-211"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88009952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical Doses: Nurturing Diversity in Psychedelic Studies","authors":"Christine Hauskeller, Claudia Gertraud Schwarz","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2266974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2266974","url":null,"abstract":"In this introduction to the thematic issue Critical Psychedelic Studies we argue that many and diverse critical analyses of psychedelic cultures and practices are needed to counter the current hype...","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139023905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Everybody’s creating it along the way’: ethical tensions among globalized ayahuasca shamanisms and therapeutic integration practices","authors":"Olivia Marcus","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2022.2075201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2075201","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ayahuasca has a variety of traditional uses, yet there is a growing global interest in its potential therapeutic benefits for mental health conditions. Novel approaches to psychotherapy are emerging to address the needs of ayahuasca users to prepare as well as to guide them in ‘integrating’ their powerful psychedelic experiences, yet there is little discussion on the ethical frameworks that may structure these therapeutic processes or the social and cultural assumptions that influence the assignment of ayahuasca as a medicine. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in San Martín and Loreto, Peru, I examine the varied social meanings and uses of ayahuasca in the Peruvian vegetalista tradition and the potential ethical tensions among curanderos, mental health practitioners, and ayahuasca retreat centres. Practitioners and ayahuasca centres are left with navigating globalized concepts of mental health and ethics while attempting to remain authentic to local ontologies of healing, care, and safety.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"219 ","pages":"712 - 731"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139014658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical Doses: Nurturing Diversity in Psychedelic Studies","authors":"C. Hauskeller, Claudia Gertraud Schwarz","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2266974","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2266974","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this introduction to the thematic issue Critical Psychedelic Studies we argue that many and diverse critical analyses of psychedelic cultures and practices are needed to counter the current hype around the biomedicalization of psychedelic substances. The social sciences and humanities offer insights and methods to resist appropriation and to establish community based ethical practices. The assembled articles and book reviews indicate an urgency and vitality of research aimed at growing psychedelic cultures outside the medico-pharmaceutical complex, offering inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. Critical psychedelic studies challenge hegemonial or colonizing knowledge practices in historical and contemporary psychedelic discourse. Bringing together insights from the different original contributions we reflect on power relations in the psychedelic revival. In this article we argue against field definitions and in favour of diverse and agile formations of consciousness and praxis. We provide critical ideas for deconstructing both the patriarchal colonial legacies and the contemporary power dynamics focussed on wealth creation that characterize today's psychedelic revival.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"70 3","pages":"697 - 711"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139015554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mysticizing medicine: incorporating nondualism into the training of psychedelic guides","authors":"Valeria McCarroll","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2022.2075199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2022.2075199","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Today, practitioners of contemporary psychedelic medicine are faced with a unique challenge: supporting clients in integrating transpersonal and mystical experiences within a paradigm based on a materialistic, reductionist, and dualistic understanding of reality. Operating on assumptions of pathology and problem-solving, the Western medical model often lacks the theoretical basis to make sense of and integrate the full potentiality of psychedelic medicine. Nondualism can offer an alternative guide to engaging with and transmuting the beliefs and traumas that lie at the root of paradigms based on assumptions of separation. These frames can be deeply resourcing for both psychedelic guide and client. This article explores the challenges and limitations of the modern Western paradigm, as well as possibilities for how nondualism could be incorporated into future training of psychedelic guides.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"705 ","pages":"752 - 767"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139022782","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nested hermeneutics: Mind at Large as a curated trope of psychedelic experience","authors":"Adrian Webb","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2249208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2249208","url":null,"abstract":"Aldous Huxley’s work The Doors of Perception introduced the phrase ‘Mind at Large’ to the lexicon of psychedelic experience in 1954. I argue that its original presentation requires re-evaluation. I...","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"4 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coming down from the American trip","authors":"Claudia Gertraud Schwarz","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2266973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2266973","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (Ahead of Print, 2023)","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"55 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138524069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Psychometric <i>brahman</i> , psychedelic science: Walter Stace, transnational Vedanta, and the Mystical Experience Questionnaire","authors":"Jeffrey A. Breau, Paul Gillis-Smith","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2266322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2266322","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe longstanding juncture between science and religion in psychedelic research is mediated most notably by the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ). The MEQ is a psychometric survey for assessing mystical experiences, and it relies on the work of philosopher Walter Stace for its typology and philosophy of mysticism. Yet there is an under-investigated influence from Vedantic Hinduism that contributed to Stace’s thinking. In an analysis of Stace’s hermeneutics of mysticism, this article demonstrates how Stace’s typology of mystical experience was created in dialogue with major figures in the field of modern, transnational Vedanta. From there, we investigate how these figures’ approaches to religious experience manifest in Stace’s typology of the mystical experience and are preserved in the MEQ. We conclude by discussing how the enduring use of the MEQ, and scientists’ insistence on its theoretical rigour, embeds Stace’s interpretation of modern Vedantic ideas in the contemporary practice of psychedelic science.KEYWORDS: MysticismVedantaMystical Experience Questionnairepsychedelicsreligious studiesconsciousnessHinduismpsychedelic science AcknowledgementsWe thank Dr Nell Hawley for her generous and expert review and Dr J. Christian Greer for his constant support and whose Harvard seminar germinated this research. We also thank our anonymous peer reviewers, the editorial team at Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, and the Special Issue editors, Dr Claudia Gertraud Schwarz and Prof Christine Hauskeller, for their incisive comments and improvements to this article. Finally, we are grateful to the organizers of the Decolonizing the Psychedelic Research Revival panel at the 4S 2022 conference where we first presented this research.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Notes1 For example, Stace cites James Leuba’s The Psychology of Religious Mysticism, where he expounds on the use of drugs to bring about mystical ecstasy. See Leuba (Citation1925, 8–37).2 The English prose in these translations is assisted by Professor of English Frederick Manchester and the novelist Christopher Isherwood, respectively.3 The term Neo-Hindu or Neo-Vedantic, popularised by Paul Hacker, is a contested moniker, as it suggests a rift from historic Hinduism (Madaio Citation2017). When we use the concept here it is to signal the specific form of Vedanta that Stace was drawing from and its relationship to European influence and epistemologies, but it is important to note the complexity of this history and the internal diversity of this movement.4 Jones, for example, in 2020 considers Stace neither a perennialist nor an essentialist, yet in 2022 (with Gellman) discusses Stace in essentialist terms.5 Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes further develops a Spinozist understanding of psychedelic experience in his “The White Sun of Substance: Spinozism and the Psychedelic Amor dei Intellectualis” chapter in Psychedelics and Philosophy (Sjöstedt-Hug","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"63 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136282020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Passageways through process philosophy: panpsychism in practicePassageways through process philosophy: panpsychism in practice Review of: John H. Buchanan <i>Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety</i> . Eugene: Cascade Books, 2022, $38.00 (paperback).","authors":"Reanne Crane","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2266321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2266321","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsReanne CraneDr Reanne Crane is a language scholar and co-founder of Semantrix (www.semantrix.co.uk) – a platform that seeks to bring more rhetorical and metaphorical innovation to dialogues on drugs and consciousness], and, more generally, explores the interplay between language, culture, and the human psyche. Her PhD (University of Kent, UK, 2022) is a multi-perspectival analysis of psychedelic discourses entitled: Aldous Huxley’s Island Revisited: Psychedelics and the Semantics of Perception and Belief. She has a background in teaching and translation, with an M.A. in Contemporary Literature, and a B.A. in Mandarin Chinese and English (Newcastle University). She has been researching and lecturing on psychedelics and language both nationally and internationally since 2014.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"66 29","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is gendered power irrelevant in higher educational institutions? Understanding the persistence of gender inequality","authors":"Pat O’Connor","doi":"10.1080/03080188.2023.2253667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03080188.2023.2253667","url":null,"abstract":"For the past 30 years, many researchers have highlighted the gendering of higher educational institutions. However, many organizations in the broadly defined Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) area in the EU have varying degrees of interest, or academic staff available, in the gender equality area with many being largely unaware of this literature. This article draws provocatively on existing concepts to ‘make sense’ of the persistence of gender inequality. Such concepts include gendered organizational power, which is frequently taken-for-granted and is reflected at structural and cultural levels. The concept of legitimating discourses (including excellence, choice, women’s ‘nature’ and organizational gender neutrality) helps to explain why gender inequality is not perceived. Other manifestations of institutional resistance to gender inequality provide insights into why it is not tackled effectively. The article recognizes that gendered change does occur and uses the metaphor of bonsai-ing to highlight attempts to limit the impact of such changes. Finally, it identifies some key issues that need to be tackled.","PeriodicalId":50352,"journal":{"name":"Interdisciplinary Science Reviews","volume":"18 S1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"综合性期刊","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}