“Ambiguity is exciting.” One doesn’t often hear those words uttered; in fact, I’ve never heard them said before. However, this sentiment may help to explain Dr. Robert Weinstock’s passion for ethics, forensic psychiatry, and the intersection of the two. Clarifying ambiguity seems to provide him with a significant intellectual challenge. I have known him for over 14 years, and during that time h...

Pressure on doctors to keep up with technology can be a pain, but it’s nothing new. For John Macintyre, it was not just a pleasure but an all consuming passion. Macintyre had an astonishingly inventive mind, making some of the earliest sound recordings of the great singers and actors of the late Victorian era. He had humble origins, born the son of a tailor in Glasgow’s High Street in 1857. He ...

The Jenner Lecturer this year was Sir Peter Medawar. In the title of his lecture he posed the question 'Is inoculation against cancer theoretically possible?' and he started immediately by expressing the opinon that he thought it should be. He presented this complex subject with great lucidity, beginning with a graph showing the relationship between the incidence of breast cancer and the age of...