Doctor murder

In this Article, I explore how nearly continuous public rhetorical challenges to abortion in the political realm first led the public and the courts to turn away from a particular abortion procedure (intact dilation and extraction, also known as partial-birth abortion) which political agitators labeled as "barbaric" and then to view physicians who performed abortions not as legitimate professionals, but simply as "abortionists," and sometimes as evil "Frankensteins." "Abortionists" use no "medical judgment" and are unworthy of deference by state legislatures, Congress, or the courts when deciding how or when to perform an abortion...

INTRODUCTION: After two judgements by the Italian constitutional Court (the first one - No. 242/2019 - related to the decriminalisation, under well-defined conditions, of the article No. 580 of the penal code: support or incitement to commit suicide, and, the second - No. 50/2022 - related to the referendum held in regard to the partial repeal of article No. 579 of the penal code: murder of the consenting party), the issue of the physician assisted suicide (PAS) has been recently regulated by the bill of law No...

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The term "euthanasia" refers to medical interventions that involve the direct administration of a lethal drug to the patient who requests it and meets certain requirements. Currently in Italy euthanasia constitutes a crime and falls within the hypotheses foreseen and punished by Article 579 (Murder of consenting person) or by article 580 (Instigation or aid to suicide) of the penal code. On the contrary, medically assisted suicide in some cases and the suspension of treatment constitute an inviolable right pursuant to art...

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Dr Pownall was a surgeon, asylum proprietor and one-time mayor of Calne who had bouts of insanity. He had two serious bouts of violence when insane, and later murdered a servant, Louisa Cook, after his discharge from Northwoods Asylum as recovered. He was tried for murder and ended up in Broadmoor, where he died in 1882. There are extensive contemporary public accounts of the case, but detailed examination of the roles of the local chief magistrate, Purnell Barnsby Purnell, and Pownall's brother-in-law and asylum doctor, Dr Ogilvie, reveals severe tensions that adversely influenced events...

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The criminal practices of National Socialism not only led to millions of murders, but also to increased suicide rates. The present study examines a specific aspect of this phenomenon: the suicides and corresponding motives of 275 German doctors and dentists in the period from 1933 to 1949. The analysis is based on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. Most suicides were due to National Socialist repression, with peaks in 1938 and 1942. One fifth of the cases were among National Socialist perpetrators, with a peak of those suicides occurring in 1945...

At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919-1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article discusses her inadequately investigated case in the wider context of fatal violence against women and girls during years of major political instability. Ordinarily her violent death would have been subject to a coroner's court inquiry and rigorous police investigation, but in 1920, civil inquests in much of Ireland were replaced by military courts of inquiry...

BACKGROUND: Racial and ethnic diversity of healthcare workers have benefits on team functioning and patient care. However, a significant barrier to retaining diverse providers is discrimination. OBJECTIVE: To assess the predictors, perpetrators, and narratives of racial discrimination among healthcare workers. DESIGN: Survey study. PARTICIPANTS: Healthcare workers employed at academic hospitals. MAIN MEASURES: We assessed prevalence and perpetrators of racial and ethnic discrimination using the General Ethnic Discrimination Scale...

As the world's population ages, a question of who can be trusted to look after the increasing elderly population arises. Health care professionals are commonly considered one of the group of people we entrust with our health care and maintenance of a good quality of life. Unfortunately, some abuse this trust. Harold Shipman, Elizabeth Wettlaufer and Roger Dean are three examples of health care professionals held responsible for multiple homicides of patients aged 65 years and older in their care. Harold Shipman, a United Kingdom doctor, is suspected of killing potentially 400 patients over 27 years...

Objective. In the wake of several high-profile police killings, the United States has begun another reckoning with structural racism, injustice, and violence against Black Americans. The objectives of this project were to explore the impact of racialized sociopolitical events on Black Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) students. Methods. Focus groups were conducted with second to fourth-year Black PharmD students enrolled at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Pharmacy. The focus groups were conducted in summer 2020, beginning two months after the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police officers and concluding before the start of the fall semester...

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Every dead body is examined by a doctor to establish the manner of death. In the Netherlands, however, both the quality of post-mortem examinations and the number of autopsies carried out in a clinical or forensic setting are low. Not all causes of death can be determined by post mortem examination alone; the law should, therefore, be changed to allow a forensic physician to legally request additional investigations, such as a toxicological or radiological report, to ensure the detection of crimes such as murder...

Studies on the complicity of the medical profession in the crimes of the Third Reich are on the rise. This also applies to the question of the extent to which doctors were brought to justice in international trials after World War II. This topic, however, has hardly been considered-let alone systematically investigated-with respect to German dentists. It is precisely this gap that this article will address. First, we quantitatively identify all dentists who were brought to justice in the post-war period. Second, we give a profile of this group...

Doctors in India are facing violent-acts against them, and there is an increasing trend in recent years, leading to a Public Health Riot-like scenario in India. There are reports of a doctor being murdered, thrashed, beaten, injured, handicapped, harassed, threatened, and socially maligned with news of demeaning messages spreading such as wild-fire through social media and news channels. More alarming is that common people are justifying the acts of killing, beating, and provoking others to do more such acts, thereby triggering a vicious cycle...

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Cholera reached the Maltese Archipelago for the first time ever in June 1837. It found a poor and destitute population that was not prepared for the epidemic. Many doctors feared contagion while others believed it was contracted from bad air or miasma. The first cases of cholera in Malta broke out at a hospital for the elderly and the infirm, the Ospizio in Floriana on 9th June 1837, reached a peak in the week between 12 July to 18 July and dwindled by the end of August 1837. The epidemic saw a death toll of 4252 from 8785 registered cholera cases when the Maltese population was 120,000...

The Nuremberg Nazi doctors' trial, established ethical standards for human experimentation. Pre-Nazi Germany was well advanced in all sciences. The murderous Nazi ideology used eugenics and "scientific racism" to eliminate those whom they regarded as inferiors. Scores of medical eponyms named after Nazi doctors are still in use. We must always mention these physicians' contributions to the "white murderers" atrocities during the Nazi rule.

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