OBJECTIVES To describe the incidence and case-fatality rates of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in young children in Colorado, to compare these injuries based on intentionality and outcome (prehospital death, in-hospital death, or survival), and to model the association of intentionality with TBI-related mortality. METHODS Cases were drawn from the 1994-2002 Colorado Traumatic Brain Injury Surve...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

FIST121 Making a Killing: Murder and True Crime Non/Fiction Narratives This course explores the genre of true crime in a comparative setting and by way of a study of different typologies of murder: spree killing, fratricide, serial killing, and infanticide. Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies that, "Periodically, some trial, and not necessarily fictitious like the one in Camus's THE STRANGER, c...

intentional and unintentional injuries;healthy approach references haddon wjr, suchman e, klein d. accident research: methods and approaches. harper & row publishers, chicago, il, usa. 1964. global burden of diseases, world health organization, http://www.who.int/topics/global_burden_of_disease/en/ date of access, sept. 2012. iranian census center. http://www.amar.org.ir/ , date of access augus...

Causes are defined informally to be events which are both contextually necessary and contextually sufficient for their effects. A formal, logico-pragmatic, definition is then given and discussed.