Medical Manslaughter: Resolving Circularity

A Charge of Manslaughter against a Medical Man

Considerable interest has been excited by a charge of homicide by imprudence, preferred against Dr. J. D. M. Coghill of Colombo, in having caused the death of Mr. Stephen Rowan Aitken, by negligently and without due caution prescribing and causing to be administered certain medicines. From the evidence, it would appear that Mr. Aitken, who was thirty years of age, had been under Dr. Coghill's t...

Mistakes, misguided moments, and manslaughter.

Constructive Truth and Circularity

We propose a constructive interpretation of truth which resolves the standard semantic paradoxes. 1. Heuristic concepts In intuitionism the law of excluded middle (LEM) is not accepted because the assignment of truth values to sentences is seen as a kind of open-ended process. Although the validity of any purported proof is supposed to be decidable, the truth value of a given sentence may not b...

What's Wrong with Involuntary Manslaughter?

[Withholding medical care as a physical injury--manslaughter and withdrawal of treatment].

Withholding therapy may cause a charge of manslaughter and the intended withdrawal of therapy may result in proceedings because of second-degree murder, requested homicide and omission of help, respectively. According to the criminal law, negligence of the duty to help does not require a guarantor position of the physician but the intent for punishableness. Otherwise, the physician is liable fo...