The career, avocations and misfortunes of Sir William Wilde (1815-76) are described by his biographers2 and others,3 but recently a forgotten facet of his activities has been recovered. This is his successful support of Patrick Kane, a Dublin coachman accused in July 1853 of sexual assaults on two little girls, an intervention followed some years later by Wilde's appeal on behalf of Amos Greenw...

Diminished capacity survives in California as a severely attenuated mens rea defense known as diminished actuality. Some other states have similar limited strict mens rea defenses. The lost advantages of California's former expanded concept of diminished capacity are reviewed. As opposed to the all-or-none insanity defense, mens rea defenses permit the trier of fact to find gradations of guilt ...

Pharmacy originates from a background of medication compounding and supply. More recently, this role has developed away from an absolute focus on the supply of pharmaceuticals with, for example, the advent of pharmacist prescribing. Nevertheless, for a majority of the profession, medication supply remains a core activity. Regulation of the pharmacy profession is now the responsibility of the Ge...

field of human relations. In a series of flashbacks it tells the story of Pat Chapman's life as she remembered, wrote and recounted it to her friend, Leila Berg (who is the editor). Mrs Chapman was turned out of her home at the age of fourteen and was moved from one training or penal institution to another. In a search for affection she married a man who was later diagnosed as a paranoid schizo...

Despite the opposition of medical and public health professionals, several state legislatures are considering laws that permit child abuse charges for substance use during pregnancy. We reviewed legal decisions regarding women charged with a crime against a fetus or child as a result of substance use during pregnancy. We identified 24 judicial opinions published between 1977 and 2015 in cases i...

the family had gone on ahead. The brothers stood waiting for a change of train on the Piccadilly Line at Finsbury Park Station, chatting to each other in a crowd of waiting passengers. On the platform was a large, shabbily dressed, black man acting in a bizarre manner. In the era of community care, floridly psychotic per sons are not an unusual sight on the streets of the capital or on its tran...

unlike the islamic code (approved 1370/1991) in which no suitable attention had been paid to the rule of interference of retaliation, the islamic punishment code (approved 1392/2013) has discussed this rule as well as the rule of interference of blood-moneys in details and in which some innovations may be seen. in spite of increase in the number of articles concerning this rule, some innovation...

In 1889, the Brooklyn Eagle published a series of sensationalist reports on Dr Mary Amanda Dixon Jones, a leading gynaecological surgeon, painting a picture ofa conniving woman guilty of malpractice and financial and medical fraud. The Citizen, another Brooklyn newspaper, entered the fray in defence of the doctor, depicting her as a paragon of the late-nineteenth-century womanly virtue of carin...