Murder and the ICU

Murder and the ICU.

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is a place of technology, unusual drug formularies and rapid decisionmaking, all designed to help critically ill patients get better. However, these same factors can create an environment where a healthcare worker might systematically harm a patient without fear of detection or punishment. Such allegations are difficult to substantiate because evidence is so diffic...

Murder and the Death Penalty

Morbid Jealousy and Murder

tresses were unfaithful to them. As murderers go, they were an elderly group, of average age 474 years. Unlike ordinary, jealous lovers, their attacks were nearly always upon wives, rather than upon supposed rivals. The latter, being imaginary, could never be caught in the act and were only hazily identified. As with most deluded patients, these murderers seemed driven by emotional necessity to...

Perdure and Murder

The rich resources of the Four-Dimensional metaphysics have been brought to bear upon many traditional philosophical problems in recent years. Alas, the implications of Four-Dimensionalism for bioethics have gone largely unexplored. Hud Hudson is the rare exception. Relying upon a FourDimensional metaphysics of temporal parts and a belief in unrestricted composition, 2 he argues that there is l...

Murder on the Internet

In this article we describe the design and testing process that resulted in the production of Un Meurtre à Cinet and Un Misterio en Toluca, two role-playing applications which ask students of French and Spanish to collaborate to solve a murder mystery using e-mail, a listserv, and a culturally rich web site. Using our own pedagogical philosophy and our own production experience as guides, we al...