TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallace,Rodrick
AU  - Fullilove,Mindy T.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Collective Consciousness and its Discontents: Institutional distributed cognition, racial policy, and public health in the United States 
SN  - 9780387767659
U1  - 613 23
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Springer US
KW  - MEDICINE
KW  - MEDICAL RECORDS
KW  - DATA PROCESSING
KW  - EPIDEMIOLOGY
KW  - MEDICINE & PUBLIC HEALTH
KW  - PUBLIC HEALTH/GESUNDHEITSWESEN
KW  - HEALTH INFORMATICS
N1  - Consciousness And Distributed Cognition -- Formal Theory -- Pathologies Of Collective Consciousness -- Disease And Collective Consciousness -- The Failure Of Aids Control And Treatment In The Us -- Final Remarks -- Mathematical appendix -- References
N2  - This book expands a recent mathematical treatment of the Baars model of individual consciousness to an institutional venue in which multiple 'Global Workspaces' cooperate, communicate, and compete. The result is an expansion of Dretske's necessary conditions communications theory approach to high level cognition, having potential applications ranging from the organizational ecology of the firm to the design and analysis of highly parallel or networked autonomic computing systems. The particular example explored in detail, the failure of AIDS control and treatment in the United States, generalizes distributed cognition approaches to medical error and applies them to larger scale patterns of failure in public health, affecting populations rather than individuals. The book is written as a series of nearly independent chapters, and can be read at markedly different mathematical levels
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76765-9
ER  -