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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction to the Paladin Edition -- Preface to the Reissue - 40 Years on -- 1 The Rhetoric of Medicine -- 2 The New Magicians -- 3 Suffer the Little Children -- 4 'Decisions, Decisions . . .' -- 5 The Doors of Mental Illness -- 6 'Let's Kill all the Lawyers' -- 7 The Last Taboo -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

"In many ways, Ontario's Chatham-Kent region is a microcosm of Canadian multiculturalism. As a terminus of the Underground Railroad, it has long been home to a large Black community, Walpole Island and Delaware First Nations are nearby, and many interned Japanese Canadians worked on local farms during World War II. The history of sport in the region is emblematic of the challenges that have confronted generations of non-white athletes nationwide. Each chapter uses the story of a local athlete--some famous, others more obscure--to illuminate one aspect of the evolving relationship between race and sport in North America. Combining tales of personal triumph with sports history and social commentary, On Account of Darkness examines systemic racism and ambivalent attitudes that persist to this day."--

"Ten years ago the MPs' expenses scandal gripped the nation, with story after story showing our elected representatives taking advantage of us, making claims for such things as a floating duck-house, moat-cleaning services and 550 sacks of horse manure. There followed a genuine crisis of confidence in our governing class. In desperation, MPs set up an independent regulator-- the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA). No sooner had they done so than it came under fire: from the newspapers for not doing what they wanted, and from MPs for doing what they'd voted for but didn't really intend. Ian Kennedy was the chair of IPSA for its first seven years. Here, he describes in detail how the greatest political horror story for decades was finally laid to rest"--

In 2009, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to detonate an explosive device on a plane landing in Detroit on Christmas Day. The attack was unsuccessful, but it spurred an important domestic debate regarding U.S. anti-terrorist programs and policies. In particular, the event fueled an argument over the proper forum for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorist suspects captured in the United States. Focusing on national security issues, some contended that treating Abdulmutallab as a criminal defendant in an Article III court, rather than subjecting him to a military commission, was imprudent and dangerous, while others insisted that it was entirely appropriate and responsible. This Note will probe this debate by comparing the two tribunals as each relates to the legal protections for suspects during interrogation. The Note argues that although some differences do exist, it is quite plausible that treating Abdulmutallab and other captured terrorist suspects as criminal defendants in Article III court does not adversely impact intelligence gathering and national security.

Although recent scholarship has enumerated many individual-level consequences of criminal legal citations and sentences involving fines and fees, we know surprisingly little about the structural consequences of monetary sanctions or legal financial obligations (LFOs). We use social disorganization and critical race theories to examine neighborhood-level associations between and among LFO sentence amounts, poverty, and racial and ethnic demographics. Using longitudinal data from the Washington State Administrative Office of the Courts, and the American Community Survey, we find LFOs are more burdensome in high-poverty communities and of color, and that per-capita rates of LFOs sentenced are associated with increased future poverty rates across all neighborhoods.

The organization of health care / Keith Syrett -- Regulating health care professions / Paula Case -- Duties in contract and tort / Rachael Mulheron -- Breach of duty / Philip Havers and Jessica Elliott -- Actions arising from birth / Stephen Todd -- Causation and defences / Richard Goldberg -- Institutional liability / Keith Syrett -- Consent to treatment : the competent patient / Jean V. McHale -- The test for capacity / Neil Allen -- Care and treatment of those lacking decision-making capacity / Neil Allen -- Mental health law / Judith Laing and Nicola Glover-Thomas -- Confidentiality and data protection / Mark Taylor -- Clinical research / Jean V. McHale -- Medically assisted reproduction / Michael Freeman -- Reproductive genetics / Michael Freeman -- Abortion / Emily Jackson -- The regulation of medicinal products and medical devices / Christopher Hodges -- Products liability / Richard Goldberg -- The legal regulation of human material / Jean V. McHale -- Medical innvation, patenting and the human body / Amanda Warren-Jones -- Ending life / Jonathan Herring -- Death / Murray Earle

This paper introduces and presents a first analysis of a uniquely curated dataset of misinformation, disinformation, and rumors spreading on Twitter about the 2020 U.S. election. Previous research on misinformation—an umbrella term for false and misleading content—has largely focused either on broad categories, using a finite set of keywords to cover a complex topic, or on a few, focused case studies, with increased precision but limited scope. Our approach, by comparison, leverages real-time reports collected from September through November 2020 to develop a comprehensive dataset of tweets connected to 456 distinct misinformation stories from the 2020 U.S. election (our ElectionMisinfo2020 dataset), 307 of which sowed doubt in the legitimacy of the election. By relying on real-time incidents and streaming data, we generate a curated dataset that not only provides more granularity than a large collection based on a finite number of search terms, but also an improved opportunity for generalization compared to a small set of case studies. Though the emphasis is on misleading content, not all of the tweets linked to a misinformation story are false: some are questions, opinions, corrections, or factual content that nonetheless contributes to misperceptions. Along with a detailed description of the data, this paper provides an analysis of a critical subset of election-delegitimizing misinformation in terms of size, content, temporal diffusion, and partisanship. We label key ideological clusters of accounts within interaction networks, describe common misinformation narratives, and identify those accounts which repeatedly spread misinformation. We document the asymmetry of misinformation spread: accounts associated with support for President Biden shared stories in ElectionMisinfo2020 far less than accounts supporting his opponent. That asymmetry remained among the accounts who were repeatedly influential in the spread of misleading content that sowed doubt in the election: all but two of the top 100 'repeat spreader' accounts were supporters of then-President Trump. These findings support the implementation and enforcement of 'strike rules' on social media platforms, directly addressing the outsized role of repeat spreaders.

The 13th International Congress on Combustion By-Products and their Health Effects was held in New Orleans, Louisiana from May 15–18, 2013. The congress, sponsored by the Superfund Research Program, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and National Science Foundation, brought together international academic and government researchers, engineers, scientists and policymakers. With industrial growth, increased power needs and generation and coal consumption and their concomitant emissions, pernicious health effects associated with exposures to these emissions are on the rise. This congress provides a unique platform for interdisciplinary exchange and discussion of these topics. The formation, conversion, control and health effects of combustion by-products, including particulate matter and associated heavy metals, persistent organic pollutants and environmentally persistent free radicals, were discussed during the congress. This review will summarize and discuss the implications of the data presented.