Murder by medicine

Stopping Murder by Medicine: Introducing the Model Law on Medicine Crime

The iatrogenic pandemic of untreated illness related to falsified and substandard medicines is intolerable, but has a logical explanation: in many countries, inadequate laws make it barely illegal to manufacture or distribute poor-quality medicines. The law hardly punishes those who intentionally or recklessly deal in falsified or substandard medicine, when clearly it should criminalize these p...

[Murder by metaldehyde poisoning].

Murder by government.

Murder & Medicine: The Transformation of Homicide to Assault

Despite the proliferation of increasingly dangerous weapons and the very large increase in rates of serious criminal assault, since 1960 the lethality of such assault in the United States has dropped dramatically. This paradox has barely been studied and needs to be examined using national time-series data. Starting from the basic view that homicides are aggravated assaults with the outcome of ...

Who killed clinical medicine? An allegorical murder mystery.

Poirot recalled his last visit to Dr clime when he was ill with fever. The doctor had been thorough in his examination! There were many similarities between a doctor and a detective. Both reconstructed their “cases” based on answers to questions. Both Poirot and Dr clime, had always considered it more important to know the individuals, understand their thoughts and backgrounds rather than run a...