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Responsibility

?2.25 45s Philosophical discussions of responsibility , freedom of the will and such subjects seem often to stand at an enormous distance from the more immediate problems of psychiatry and the law. That they should stand at some distance is inevitable and no bad thing, but to keep them too far apart for too long has, among other bad effects, the rather paradoxical one of making both parties con...

Results of 1000 Cases

H. Pandit, FRCS(Orth), DPhil, Senior Clinical and Research Fellow H. S. Gill, DPhil, Lecturer in Orthopaedic Engineering D. W. Murray, MD, FRCS(Orth), Professor of Orthopaedics Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS), University of Oxford C. Jenkins, MSc, Senior Research Physiotherapist K. Barker, PhD, Clinical Director and Head of Physiotherapy C...

Criminal Responsibility

the definition of a crime has never yet been clearly made. A crime has been described as a result of human conduct, which it is the policy of the governing power in the state to prevent. Usually it is followed by a punishment , but this was not always so. In early years, suffering was imposed on the wrongdoer, and in Roman times expiation was necessary to placate the offended gods. That which d...

Responsibility Revisited

Recent developments in medicine open up new possibilities for planning and shaping life. At the same time, this scope of new options and interventions also involves new forms and spheres of responsibilities. Elderly persons can be viewed as having a responsibility toward their families and partners to plan, via advance health care directives, the final stages of their life; individuals can be s...