Stopping Murder by Medicine: Introducing the Model Law on Medicine Crime

Forensic aspects of alcohol abuse and homicide.

Numerous investigations indicate a close link between violent behavior, homicide (murder) and alcohol intoxication. With increased frequency of drinking and the chronic consummation of alcohol, the risk of the fatal outcome or homicide and victimization caused by violence is more likely to occur. Studies conducted on convicted murderers suggested that about half of them were under the heavy inf...

Unspeakably cruel--torture, medical ethics, and the law.

Torture is a particularly horrible crime, and any participation of physicians in torture has always been difficult to comprehend. As General Telford Taylor explained to the American judges at the trial of the Nazi doctors in Nuremberg, Germany (called the "Doctors' Trial"), "To kill, to maim, and to torture is criminal under all modern systems of law . . . yet these [physician] defendants, all ...

The Exotic Side of Csi: Forensics in Non- Domesticated Animals

“CSI” – CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION! The very words conjure up a picture of murder, mystery, police officers, and poison analysis. Few would normally associate such activities—and all else that is part of modern forensic science—with contemporary veterinary practice. Nothing, however, could be further from the truth. Forensic veterinary medicine is here to stay! So what is exactly is “forensic ve...

The connections between eugenics, sterilization and mass murder in Germany from 1933 to 1945.

Examining pornography in cyberspace from the perspective of ethics, spirituality and medicine

Background & Aims: Pornography in cyberspace is one of the emerging and multidimensional challenges in society. Each discipline offers different criteria, reasons, perspectives and solutions according to their point of view; But this multidimensional phenomenon has involved all aspects of human societies in individual and group dimensions and has left negative consequences. The aims of this stu...