Creating Entertaining Lawsuits: Defamation and Tabloid Publicity in 1920s Shanghai

Defamation lawsuits: academic sword or shield?

Scientists and academics are used to defending their theories, methods, and results in the classroom, at conferences, and in peer-reviewed publications. But Pieter Cohen, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, learned that he had to defend his research in a defamation suit while reading a supplement industry trade publication (Robins, 2017). Cohen is known as a “dogged detective” for...

Defamation or No Defamation

his, Mrs. Lorimer, who was ill. Dr. Stuart agreed and called on the following day. He was then told to consult with Dr. Brougham regarding the patient, and accordingly made an appointment with Dr. Brougham for tho following day, which that gentleman was unable to keep. Dr. Stuart paid his second visit, however, and on the third day, the 11th July, both he and Dr. Brougham held a consultation, s...

Tragedy in sport and trial by tabloid.

Anaesthesia in the 1920s.

At the time of publication of the first issue of the British Journal of Anaesthesia in July 1923, there were not many whole-time anaesthetists in this country, and these were confined to university teaching hospitals. Blomfield (1922) stated that there were 27 specialists at 12 teaching hospitals in London, and a similar situation existed in the provinces. In the peripheral hospitals, anaesthes...

Annotating Relation Mentions in Tabloid Press

This paper presents a new resource for the training and evaluation needed by relation extraction experiments. The corpus consists of annotations of mentions for three semantic relations: marriage, parent–child, siblings, selected from the domain of biographic facts about persons and their social relationships. The corpus contains more than one hundred news articles from Tabloid Press. In the cu...