Another Harry Stafford Letter

Lessons from Stafford.

A Public Inquiry into deficiencies at an acute hospital trust revealed not only many experiences of appalling care suffered by patients. Although it had been claimed that there were no warning signs of the poor state of affairs prevalent at the trust the Inquiry found evidence that staff, whistle-blowers and external bodies had been raising concerns the impact on patients of which were ignored ...

Stafford Leak Warren (1896?1981)

Stafford Leak Warren studied nuclear medicine in the United States during the twentieth century. He used radiation [3] to make images of the body for diagnosis or treatment and developed the mammogram, a breast imaging technique that uses low-energy X-rays to produce an image of breasts. Mammograms allow doctors to diagnose breast cancer in its early and most treatable stages. Warren was also a...

Algorithmic proofs of two theorems of Stafford

Two classical results of Stafford say that every (left) ideal of the n-th Weyl algebra An can be generated by two elements, and every holonomic An-module is cyclic, i.e. generated by one element. We modify Stafford’s original proofs to make the algorithmic computation of these generators possible.

Justice for Women : Stafford Borough , 1880 - 1905

The Dirty Harry Problem

Policing constantly places its practitioners in situations in which good ends can be achieved by dirty means. When the ends to be achieved are urgent and unquestionably good and only a dirty means will work to achieve them, the policeman faces a genuine moral dilemma. A genuine moral dilemma is a situation from which one cannot emerge innocent no matter what one does-employ a dirty means, emplo...