In recent years, there has been a steady increase in injuries all over the world. Man-made and natural disasters, local military conflicts, transport and industrial accidents in 50-60% of cases of all injuries lead to combined and multiple injuries to organs and systems of the human body, and, as a result, to high sanitary losses in the first hours and days [1,2,5,13,19,21]. This article discusses intestinal injuries in combined abdominal trauma.
Informed by coherence theory, it is contended that the narratives used in legal injury cases possess a universal set of particular characteristics & that these characteristics are found within the genre of melodrama. An overview of the melodramatic genre is presented, highlighting the various character types & motifs prevalent in such works & reviewing literary critical accounts of the function of melodrama. Similarities between melodramas & legal injury narratives are illuminated, including (1) the existence of a fundamental plot in which a benevolent & inherently good plaintiff/protagonist is wronged by a malicious & blameworthy defendant/antagonist; (2) the unilateral assertion of blame for the injury; (3) the presence of certain stock characters who fulfill stereotypical roles; (4) the attribution of certain characteristics like weakness & passivity to the plaintiff/protagonist; (5) the gendering & racializing of both principal parties/characters; (6) the articulation of the plaintiff/protagonist's virtue; & (7) the expression of positive emotions toward the plaintiff/protagonist. Future directions for research are offered. 41 References. J. W. Parker
A few states, notably California, are experiencing large increases in the number and cost of disability settlements under workers' compensation. Claims of cumulative injury for coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancer and neuropsychiatric problems have all been interpreted as compensable under workers' compensation, even when these conditions are clearly related to the aging process. Legal precedents for such claims are building rapidly throughout the country. The resultant costs may lead to the demise of the workers' compensation system. The situation in California is discussed in detail including the legal aspects, cumulative injury claims by type of disease and age of claimants, legal costs to the individual and the employer, and the economic outlook for the workers' compensation insurance system.
The argument of R. Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books, 1975) that only a state limited to protection against coercion is justifiable, is flawed by Nozick's failure to articulate the substantive laws which the state may enforce. In fact, it is not valid to legitimatize the state by its enforcement of law; rather, law is legitimized by being created by the state, when the state is legitimate. The state's role cannot be limited to remedying acknowledged injuries, but must include determining what is, & what is not an injury. A state which has such powers of discretion cannot be limited in that sense; what is central to legitimacy, rather, is putting control in the proper hands. The people must play a role in deciding what the state's powers will be. The proper procedure is to derive from the state's legitimacy the brakes on its power which must exist for it to remain legitimate. W. H. Stoddard.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Friday, April 26, 2002 -- Near the Close of 1981 -- The Months Leading Up to the Accident -- 10 Years Before -- Back to the Present in 1982 -- 1983 -- 1985 -- Pre-Brain Damage -- Post Brain Damage -- Back to the Present in 1985 -- 1986 -- Values -- September 1987 -- Forced to Go to Court -- 9 Months from the Close of Trial to Judgment -- Dr. Fisher -- From a Pulpit in October 1989 -- Trying to Serve Post-Judgment -- November 20th 2003 -- 2006 -- 2007 to 2015.